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QAPF diagram with basalt/andesite field highlighted in yellow. Andesite is distinguished from basalt by SiO 2 > 52%. Andesite is field O2 in the TAS classification.. Andesite is an aphanitic (fine-grained) to porphyritic (coarse-grained) igneous rock that is intermediate in its content of silica and low in alkali metals.
The Servian Wall, built to defend the city of Rome in the fourth century BC, is also built almost entirely from tuff. [51] The Romans also cut tuff into small, rectangular stones that they used to create walls in a pattern known as opus reticulatum. [52] Peperino has been used in Rome and Naples as a building stone, is a trachyte tuff.
Gabbroic xenolith in andesite, Tertiary of Wyoming, United States Olivine weathering to iddingsite within a mantle xenolith. A xenolith ("foreign rock") is a rock fragment (country rock) that becomes enveloped in a larger rock during the latter's development and solidification.
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A cut block of trachyandesite lava from a volcano in Auvergne, France, used as building stone, forming part of the walls of Clermont-Ferrand Cathedral, France Trachyandesite is field S3 in the TAS diagram. Trachyandesite is an extrusive igneous rock with a composition between trachyte and andesite.
The calc-alkaline magma series is one of two main subdivisions of the subalkaline magma series, the other subalkaline magma series being the tholeiitic series. A magma series is a series of compositions that describes the evolution of a mafic magma, which is high in magnesium and iron and produces basalt or gabbro, as it fractionally crystallizes to become a felsic magma, which is low in ...
Basaltic andesite from Parícutin volcano in Mexico. Basaltic andesite is a volcanic rock that is intermediate in composition between basalt and andesite. It is composed predominantly of augite and plagioclase. Basaltic andesite can be found in volcanoes around the world, including in Central America [1] and the Andes of South America. [2]
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