Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An altered or partly metamorphosed rhyolite.
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Examples
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Metarhyolite and metabasalt occur in Pennsylvania; diabase, metabasalt, and metarhyolite are found in Maryland.
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA) 2008
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Broadspears made from South Mountain metarhyolite of the Lehigh/Koens-Crispin type are common to the site as are the long and narrow stemmed bifaces of the slightly earlier Piedmont Archaic Period.
Museum Blogs 2010
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