rhyolithic

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A form of rhyolitic — Pertaining to or composed of rhyolite, the lava form of granite.

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Meanings

adjectiverhyolithic (comparative more rhyolithic, superlative most rhyolithic)

comparative more rhyolithic · superlative most rhyolithic

  1. alternativeobsoleteAlternative form of rhyolitic: composed of or related to rhyolite.

    The eruptive masses of the Taupo zone consist of lava (the richest known) of silicious earth, also of rhyolithic rocks of all kinds.

    1864, Friedrich von Hochstetter et al., translated by Carl Franz Fischer, Geology of New Zealand, page 55
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    According to M. Vélain, the island originally rose above the ocean as a mass of rhyolithic trachyte similar to that which still forms the Nine Pin rock to the north of the entrance to the crater.

    1884, "St Paul" in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. XXI, p. 189

Origin

  1. GermanRhyolith“rhyolite”
  2. Englishrhyolithic

From German Rhyolith (“rhyolite”) + -ic, presumably under influence from -lithic.

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