The buff-colored dacites of the Superstition Mountains are felsites.
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(geology) Any light-colored volcanic rock whose true mineralogy is not yet determined.
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Noun
Singular:
felsite
Plural:
felsites
Origin of felsite
fels(par)–ite
From
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Felsite Sentence Examples
These are penetrated by intrusions of granitic and felsitic character; one of these masses in Papa Stour is a handsome pink felsite.
Igneous rocks are not extensively developed; in Wales they form an important feature and occur in considerable thickness; they are represented by lavas of olivine-diabase and by contemporaneous tuffs which are traversed by later granite and quartz felsite.
Tertiary-aged dolerite and felsite dikes occur throughout the area and have a strike of NW-SE.
The orthoschists are white mica-schists produced by the shearing of acid rocks, such as felsite and porphyry.