LATITE


Meaning of LATITE in English

or trachyandesite

Type of igneous rock that is abundant in western North America.

Usually white, yellowish, pinkish, or gray, it is the volcanic equivalent of monzonite . Latites contain plagioclase feldspar (andesine or oligoclase) as large, single crystals (phenocrysts) in a fine-grained matrix of orthoclase feldspar and augite.

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