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- Pantellerite is a type of volcanic rock, specifically a peralkaline rhyolite. It has a higher iron and lower aluminium composition than comendite. It is...
- rhyolites (rhyolites unusually rich in alkali metals) include comendite and pantellerite. Peralkalinity has significant effects on lava flow morphology and mineralogy...
- Comendite – Hard, peralkaline igneous rock, a type of light blue grey rhyolite Pantellerite – Peralkaline rhyolite type of volcanic rock Scoria – Dark vesicular...
- peralkaline conditions. Examples are the peralkaline rhyolites, comendite and pantellerite, with comendite being the more felsic (silica-rich) rock. Another example...
- Pantelleria is about 230,000 tonnes. The island is the type locality for pantellerite, a peralkaline rhyolite. Pantelleria has a subtropical Mediterranean...
- volcanoes are all surmounted by rocks composed of trachyte, phonolite, pantellerite, or comendite. Their activity has been attributed either to the reactivation...
- to intermediate in composition (e.g., rhyolitic, dacitic, andesite, pantellerite, phonolite, trachyte), but basaltic and other compositions are known...
- Quartz diorite Quartz monzonite Quartzolite Rhyodacite Rhyolite Comendite Pantellerite Scoria Shonkinite Sovite Syenite Tachylyte Tephriphonolite Tephrite Tonalite...
- eruption occurred during the Early Pleistocene, with the formation of pantellerite tuff. The eruption covered about 200 square kilometres (77 sq mi) with...
- that has produced a variety of rock types, ranging from basalts to pantellerites. NNW-SSE-trending fissures cutting the volcano have fed basaltic lava...