Latite

Short description: Type of volcanic rock

Photomicrograph of thin section of latite (in plane polarised light)

Photomicrograph of thin section of latite (in cross polarised light)

Latite is an igneous, volcanic rock, with aphanitic-aphyric to aphyric-porphyritic texture. Its mineral assemblage is usually alkali feldspar and plagioclase in approximately equal amounts. Quartz is less than five percent and is absent in a feldspathoid-bearing latite, and olivine is absent in a quartz-bearing latite. When quartz content is greater than five percent the rock is classified as quartz latite.^[1] Biotite, hornblende, pyroxene and scarce olivine or quartz are common accessory minerals. Feldspathoid-bearing latite is sometimes referred to as tristanite.^[2]

Rhomb porphyries are an unusual variety with gray-white porphyritic rhomb shaped phenocrysts embedded in a very fine grained red-brown matrix. The composition of rhomb porphyry places it in the trachyte - latite classification of the QAPF diagram.

Latite is found, for example, as lavas in Bulgaria^[3] and as intrusive laccoliths and sills in South Dakota, USA.^[4]

References

↑ Classification of Igneous Rocks
↑ Philpotts, Anthony R.; Ague, Jay J. (2009). Principles of igneous and metamorphic petrology (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 140-141. ISBN 9780521880060.
↑ Georgiev, V.; Milovanov, P. (2001). "Volcanism in the Momchilgrad Volcanotectonic Depression". Comptes rendus de l'Académie bulgare des Sciences 54 (3): 63–66. Bibcode: 2001CRABS..54c..63G. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2001CRABS..54c..63G. Retrieved on 5 July 2015.
↑ "Latitic Intrusive Rocks". USGS. http://mrdata.usgs.gov/geology/state/sgmc-unit.php?unit=SDTl%3B0. Retrieved 5 July 2015.

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[IUGS-1] Classification of Igneous Rocks

[philpotts-ague-2009-140-141-2] Philpotts, Anthony R.; Ague, Jay J. (2009). Principles of igneous and metamorphic petrology (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 140-141. ISBN 9780521880060.

[3] Georgiev, V.; Milovanov, P. (2001). "Volcanism in the Momchilgrad Volcanotectonic Depression". Comptes rendus de l'Académie bulgare des Sciences 54 (3): 63–66. Bibcode: 2001CRABS..54c..63G. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2001CRABS..54c..63G. Retrieved on 5 July 2015.

[4] "Latitic Intrusive Rocks". USGS. http://mrdata.usgs.gov/geology/state/sgmc-unit.php?unit=SDTl%3B0. Retrieved 5 July 2015.

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