Definition of Felsite. Meaning of Felsite. Synonyms of Felsite

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Definition of Felsite

Felsite
Felsite Fel"site, n. [Cf. Feldspar.] (Min.) A finegrained rock, flintlike in fracture, consisting essentially of orthoclase feldspar with occasional grains of quartz.

Meaning of Felsite from wikipedia

- Felsite is a very fine-grained volcanic rock that may or may not contain larger crystals. Felsite is a field term for a light-colored rock that typically...
- Peak. Felsite Peak was named after Felsite Cr**** and has a triple summit on the east side of the Disappointment Glacier and at the head of Felsite Cr****...
- also be called leucocratic, from the Gr**** words for white and dominance. Felsite is a petrologic field term used to refer to very fine-grained or aphanitic...
- rock Epidosite – Hydrothermally altered epidote- and quartz-bearing rock Felsite – Very fine-grained volcanic rock that sometimes contains larger crystals...
- and chert, which are fine-grained sedimentary materials; rhyolite and felsite, which are igneous flowstones; and obsidian, a form of natural gl**** created...
- also biotite, quartz, and orthoclase. Andesite Basalt Basanite Dacite Felsite Phonolite Rhyolite Trachyte Le Maitre, R. W., ed. (1989). A classification...
- known as the "Hill of Fire" it is also suggested[by whom?] exposed red hue felsite rock visible in many places on the hill helped give rise to this name due...
- by glacial and other erosional processes, such as Rabbit Mountain and Felsite Peak, which are now eroded to form an outcrop. Major volcanoes of the Wrangell...
- matters, together with (in the co****r kinds) fragments of such rocks as felsite, chert, slate, gneiss, various schists, and quartzite. Among other minerals...
- cryptocrystalline. Volcanic rocks, especially of the felsic type such as felsites and rhyolites, may have a cryptocrystalline groundm**** as distinguished...