Dingwell et al. have shown at low dissolved water contents in rhyolitic melts, large changes in melt viscosity can occur for very small changes of water content.
Geochemical variation is common in deposits of many rhyolitic eruptions, especially those from large, caldera-forming events in continental settings.
It was characterized by rhyolitic volcanism which appears to have been restricted to the Horn Graben area.
As most of the glasses are rhyolitic in composition, the distinction is subtler, being based on small differences in bulk chemistry and volatile contents.
They are closely associated with marine pyroclastic rhyolitic domes and calderas and were probably deposited from submarine brines in or on the flanks of local sedimentary basins.
Definition of rhyolitic in US English:
rhyolitic
adjectiveˌrīəˈlitik
Geology
See rhyolite
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Dingwell et al. have shown at low dissolved water contents in rhyolitic melts, large changes in melt viscosity can occur for very small changes of water content.
Geochemical variation is common in deposits of many rhyolitic eruptions, especially those from large, caldera-forming events in continental settings.
It was characterized by rhyolitic volcanism which appears to have been restricted to the Horn Graben area.
They are closely associated with marine pyroclastic rhyolitic domes and calderas and were probably deposited from submarine brines in or on the flanks of local sedimentary basins.
As most of the glasses are rhyolitic in composition, the distinction is subtler, being based on small differences in bulk chemistry and volatile contents.