rhyolithic

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English

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Etymology

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

Adjective

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rhyolithic (comparative more rhyolithic, superlative most rhyolithic)

  1. (obsolete) Alternative form of rhyolitic: composed of or related to rhyolite.
    • 1864, Friedrich von Hochstetter et al., translated by Carl Franz Fischer, Geology of New Zealand, page 55:
      The eruptive masses of the Taupo zone consist of lava (the richest known) of silicious earth, also of rhyolithic rocks of all kinds.
    • 1884, "St Paul" in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. XXI, p. 189:
      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.

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