Explore: Rhyolite

Rhyolite (/ˈraɪ.əlaɪt/ RY-ə-lyte) is the most silica-rich of volcanic rocks. It is generally glassy or fine-grained (aphanitic) in texture, but may be

Rhyolite is a ghost town in Nye County, Nevada, United States. It is in the Bullfrog Hills, about 120 miles (190 km) northwest of Las Vegas, near the eastern

Rhyolite (/ˈraɪ.ə.laɪt, ˈraɪ.oʊ-/ RY-ə-lyte, RY-oh-) is a type of volcanic rock. Rhyolite may also refer to Rhyolite, Nevada, a ghost town in the U.S.

volcanism takes place, and so have a wide distribution in location and age. Rhyolite tuffs contain pumiceous, glassy fragments and small scoriae with quartz

present Yellowstone Caldera. Post-caldera eruptions included basalt flows, rhyolite domes and flows, and minor explosive deposits, with the last magmatic eruption

it is the intermediate type between silica-poor basalt and silica-rich rhyolite. It is fine-grained (aphanitic) to porphyritic in texture, and is composed

geochemistry of lava domes can vary from basalt (e.g. Semeru, 1946) to rhyolite (e.g. Chaiten, 2010) although the majority are of intermediate composition

Rhyolite Head (62°10′S 58°36′W / 62.167°S 58.600°W / -62.167; -58.600) is the headland between Cardozo Cove and Goulden Cove in Ezcurra Inlet, Admiralty

developing a Nevada mine site known as Rhyolite Ridge in order to be a future producer of lithium-boron. The Rhyolite Ridge project has raised controversy

porphyritic texture and is intermediate in composition between andesite and rhyolite. It is composed predominantly of plagioclase feldspar and quartz. Dacite