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Latite is an igneous, volcanic rock, with aphanitic-aphyric to aphyric-porphyritic texture
From the Latin word latium
Durable Rock, Medium Hardness Rock
Fine Grained Rock, Opaque Rock
Black, Brown, Green, Grey, Pink, White
Decorative Aggregates, Entryways, Interior Decoration
As Building Stone, As Facing Stone, Garden Decoration, Office Buildings
As a Flux in the Production of Steel and Pig Iron, As a Sintering Agent in Steel Industry to process Iron Ore, As Dimension Stone, Cement Manufacture, for Road Aggregate, Making natural cement, Manufacture of Magnesium and Dolomite Refractories
Artifacts, Monuments, Sculpture
An Oil and Gas Reservoir, As a Feed Additive for Livestock, Metallurgical Flux, Soil Conditioner, Source of Magnesia (MgO)
Latite is a fine-grained, hard rock which is a type of metasomatite, essentially altered basalt. It forms with or without crystallization, either below the surface as intrusive rocks or on the surface as extrusive rocks.
Alkali feldspar, Biotite, Plagioclase, Pyroxene
Burial Metamorphism, Cataclastic Metamorphism
Biological Weathering, Chemical Weathering, Mechanical Weathering
Chemical Erosion, Water Erosion, Wind Erosion
Heat Resistant, Pressure Resistant
Hornfels is a metamorphic rock formed by the contact between mudstone or other clay rich rock, and a hot igneous body, and represents a heat altered equivalent of the original rock
From German which means hornstone
Fine Grained Rock, Opaque Rock
Brown, Dark Greenish - Grey, Green, Reddish Brown
Decorative Aggregates, Flooring, Homes, Interior Decoration
As Building Stone, As Facing Stone, Garden Decoration, Office Buildings, Paving Stone
for Road Aggregate, Roadstone
Cemetery Markers, Commemorative Tablets, Creating Artwork
Due to change in environmental conditions, rocks are heated and pressurized deep inside the Earth's surface. Hornfels is formed from the extreme heat caused by magma or by the intense collisions and friction of tectonic plates.
Chemical Erosion, Glacier Erosion, Sea Erosion, Water Erosion, Wind Erosion
Heat Resistant, Impact Resistant, Pressure Resistant
Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, North Korea, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Thailand
Cameroon, East Africa, Tanzania, Western Africa
Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador
New South Wales, New Zealand, Queensland, Western Australia