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    Phonolite is an uncommon shallow intrusive or extrusive rock, of intermediate chemical composition between felsic and mafic, with texture ranging from...
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  • Tephriphonolite or tephri-phonolite is a mafic to intermediate extrusive igneous rock in composition between phonotephrite and phonolite. It contains 9 to 14%...
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  • composition between phonolite and tephritePages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback – A volcanic rock with a composition between phonolite and tephrite...
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    romanized: Ye’Åksum ḥāwelt) is a 4th-century CE, 24-metre (79 ft) tall phonolite stele, weighing 160 tonnes (160 long tons; 180 short tons), in the city...
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    eruptive products of Erebus are anorthoclase-porphyritic tephritic phonolite and phonolite, which are the bulk of exposed lava flow on the volcano. The oldest...
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    they are not unlike granites, but dark green varieties are also known. Phonolite is the fine-grained extrusive equivalent. Nepheline syenites are silica-undersaturated...
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    phono-tephrite is a strongly alkaline volcanic rock with a composition between phonolite and tephrite. This unusual igneous rock contains 7 to 12% alkali content...
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    active. The volcanoes are all surmounted by rocks composed of trachyte, phonolite, pantellerite, or comendite. Their activity has been attributed either...
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    of diverse composition Nogal Peak Trachyte (31.4 Ma) Church Mountain Phonolite (32.7 Ma) Walker Group Three Rivers Formation, divided into members: Buck...
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    Porphyritic tephriphonolite to phonolite lavas of the Caldera Rim group, dated to 274,000–170,000 years ago Phonolite lava flows with aegirine phenocrysts...
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    in the Massif Central in France. It is made of a type of rock called phonolite. It rises to an altitude of 1,551 m (5,089 ft), and its base contains...
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    at 600 km3 (140 cu mi). The final phase of eruptions are preserved as phonolite domes around Mount Cargill. Traces of the old Dunedin Volcano are best...
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    stratigraphic and petrographic description: phonolite was firstly erupted, followed by a tephritic phonolite and finally a phonolitic tephrite). According...
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  • capable of producing three notes in the first inversion of a triad. Various phonolite stones were created by volcanic activity on Oahu. These stones are known...
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  • nepheline mugearite and benmoreite or nepheline benmoreite to trachyte or phonolite. The potassic series evolves through trachybasalt or leucite trachybasalt...
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    dolerite Tejeda Gran Canaria Miocene trachyte, phonolite Vallehermoso La Gomera Miocene trachyte, phonolite Jabal Arknu Libya Tertiary Otoge Japan Miocene...
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    deep water along the Cameroon Line. The volcanic soils of basalts and phonolites, dating to 3 million years, have been used for plantation crops since...
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    The volcanic rocks range from ankaramitic basanite through tephrite to phonolite and some have ultra-potassic compositions, which is unusual for rocks...
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    including 500 handaxes and cleavers at the HK (Hopwood's Korongo) site, while phonolite handaxes and an elephant bone handaxe were found at the HEB (Heberer's...
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  • elements and the Dunedin Volcano which also has trachytic, olivine and phonolite elements erupted. The other main area of now land volcanism was what was...
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    new magma intrusion occurred in the Early Miocene, which gave rise to phonolite plugs, mainly in the Adwa area and also in Dogu’a Tembien. The present...
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    The phonolite or clinkstone of northern Ethiopia is a shallow-seated igneous rock. The phonolites intruded and punctured the Mesozoic sedimentary rocks...
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    constituents of igneous rocks rich in sodium, such as nepheline-syenite and phonolite. Pargasite is a rare magnesium-rich variety of hornblende with essential...
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    and fluid lavas, but they differentiated over time (trachybasalts and phonolites), which gave place to more explosive eruptions. The rifts mainly emitted...
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    intermediate in composition (e.g., rhyolitic, dacitic, andesite, pantellerite, phonolite, trachyte), but basaltic and other compositions are known. Pumice is commonly...
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    l'Homme and may be the oldest known musical instrument. Lithophone made of Phonolite in the Schellerhau botanic garden (Germany) Ethiopian Lithophones with...
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    nepheline tephrite from Hamberg bei Neckarelz near Heidelberg, Germany, phonolite-tephrite at Monte Vulture, Basilicata, Italy and basanite–tephrite intrusions...
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  • as the occurrence of rhönite, a very rare mineral, with the minerals phonolite and trachyte in the Dunedin Volcano, confused matters historically until...
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    rocks are overlain and intruded by volcanic rock (basalts, basanites, phonolites and trachytes) of the Tertiary. The eastern third of Franconia is dominated...
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    Kyle, Philip R.; Smellie, John L. (September 1997). "Petrogenesis of a Phonolite-Trachyte Succession at Mount Sidley, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica". Journal...
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