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Rhyolite
Igneous rock
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Composition
Felsic: igneous quartz and alkali feldspar (sanidine and sodic plagioclase), biotite and hornblende
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Rhyolite

Rhyolite is a very strong igneous, volcanic rock.

German geologist Ferdinand von Richthofen named the rock.

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