adjective
definition
Of or relating to trachyte
Examples of trachytic in a Sentence
The greater part of Hungary is well provided with both rivers and springs, but some trachytic and limestone mountainous districts show a marked deficiency in this respect.
They are formed from a grey trachytic lava found at the east end of the island.
In Luzon trachytic tuffs are sometimes interstratified with nummulitic limestone, thus showing that the eruptions had already begun in the Eocene period.
It stands partly on level ground, partly on a declivity, and above it rises a precipitous trachytic rock (400 ft.) on the summit of which are the ruins of an ancient castle.
They are laccolites of trachytic rock, and raised the Tertiary beds above them in the form of blisters.
The upper (Magdala group) contains much trachytic rock of considerable thickness, lying perfectly horizontally, and giving rise to a series of terraced ridges characteristic of central Abyssinia.
After having fully described the obsidian, I shall return to the subject of the lamination of rocks of the trachytic series.