andesite in a sentence
Examples
- Built during the Quaternary period, it is composed of basaltic andesite.
- Dykes have outcrops of trachytic andesite, dacite and rhyodacite.
- Common surface rocks include basalt, andesite, pumice, and obsidian.
- Andesites contain quartz and dacites-rhyodacites contain sanidine megacrysts.
- Guallatiri has erupted andesite, dacite and rhyolite, with dacite dominating.
- Eruption products on Escalante and Sairecabur include andesite and dacite.
- Andesite lava flows from Pilisca underlie the Ciomadul deposits in some places.
- One andesite lava flow has generated several subsidiary sulfur flows.
- Basaltic andesite and minette form about 50 % of all exposed rocks.
- Rocks erupted in the field are basaltic andesite and hawaiite.