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dacite
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Dacite
Dacite
is an
igneous
,
volcanic rock
. It has an
aphanitic
to
porphyritic
texture and is intermediate in composition between
andesite
and
rhyolite
. The word dacite comes from
Dacia
, a province of the
Roman Empire
which lay between the
Danube River
and
Carpathian Mountains
(now modern
Romania
and
Moldova
) where the rock was first described.
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