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And another outcrop in the valley below, Craig Rhos-y-felin, supplied most of the rhyolite.
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John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Aug. 2024
The mixture slowly cooled and fused into a tuff of rhyolite.
—Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2024
The aquifer recharges, but slowly: Rain is rare and getting rarer, and what does not evaporate right off takes its time to seep through all the layers of dirt and volcanic ash and limestone and granite and rhyolite and basalt.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Oct. 2022
These magma are genetically related to the Lava Creek rhyolite, but not the same magma (as borne out by their isotopic composition).
—Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2012
There was likely an intrusion of new magma under the volcano a few years before the 2011 eruption, so that event may have primed the rhyolite to erupt and caused the faults to become less stable as the stresses changed.
—Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2022
The cliffs of the rhyolite of Raker Peak, possibly associated with the Rockland Tephra.
—Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 3 Aug. 2013
This is another example of the bimodal character of the East African Rift -- a lot of close volcanoes erupting low silica basalt or high-silica rhyolite and not a lot in between.
—Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2019
Eruptions of rhyolite usually form lava domes or explosive eruptions.
—Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 10 June 2015
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John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Aug. 2024
The mixture slowly cooled and fused into a tuff of rhyolite.
—Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2024
The aquifer recharges, but slowly: Rain is rare and getting rarer, and what does not evaporate right off takes its time to seep through all the layers of dirt and volcanic ash and limestone and granite and rhyolite and basalt.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Oct. 2022
These magma are genetically related to the Lava Creek rhyolite, but not the same magma (as borne out by their isotopic composition).
—Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2012
There was likely an intrusion of new magma under the volcano a few years before the 2011 eruption, so that event may have primed the rhyolite to erupt and caused the faults to become less stable as the stresses changed.
—Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2022
The cliffs of the rhyolite of Raker Peak, possibly associated with the Rockland Tephra.
—Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 3 Aug. 2013
This is another example of the bimodal character of the East African Rift -- a lot of close volcanoes erupting low silica basalt or high-silica rhyolite and not a lot in between.
—Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2019
Eruptions of rhyolite usually form lava domes or explosive eruptions.
—Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 10 June 2015
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“Rhyolite.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rhyolite. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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