andesite

• The mantos are hosted in an andesite that is in contact with the Cabeza de Vaca batholith. —  StreetInsider.com News Articles
• The andesite hosting the interpreted mantos exhibit a moderate-strong positive magnetic signature. —  StreetInsider.com News Articles
• All the holes this year have intersected molybdenite bearing quartz vein stockwork in quartz monzonite porphyry intrusion from surface to the Thrust Fault that defines the contact with the underlying Nicola Group andesite and andesite tuffs. —  Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
• Researchers from the Carnegie Institution, the University of Maryland, and the University of Tennessee report in the January 8th edition of Nature that these meteorites are ancient asteroid fragments consisting of feldspar-rich rock called andesite. —  Impact Lab
• "What is most unusual about these rocks is that they have compositions similar to Earth's andesite continental crust - what makes up the ground beneath our feet," says University of Maryland's James Day, lead author of the study. —  Impact Lab

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