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Dacite is a volcanic igneous rock which is rintermediate in composition between andesite and rhyolite
Romania and Moldova, Europe
From Dacia, a province of the Roman Empire which lay between the Danube River and Carpathian Mountains where the rock was first described
Fine Grained Rock, Medium Grained Rock, Opaque Rock
Nepheline Syenite is a holocrystalline plutonic rock resembling syenite but containing nepheline and lacking quartz
From origin of a Palaeozoic nepheline syenite from northern Shanxi Province, China
Durable Rock, Medium Hardness Rock
Fine Grained Rock, Opaque Rock