Noun:

ट्रैकाइट,

trachyte's Usage Examples:

The soil is of volcanic origin (trachyte).

They are, first, plutonic rocks, especially granite; secondly, volcanic rocks, chiefly trachyte and dolerite; and thirdly, palaeozoic schists.

Such rocks as basalt, diorite and trachyte are comparatively rare.

The mountain is quarried, and from 1267 onward supplied stone (trachyte) for the building of Cologne cathedral.

Included in this group are some rocks which are more properly to be regarded as vitreous forms of trachyte than as glassy rhyolites (Iceland), but except by chemical analyses they cannot be separated.

north-west of Milo, is an uninhabited mass of trachyte, often called Eremomilo or Desert Melos.

Like the rest of the cluster, the island is of volcanic origin, with tuff, trachyte and obsidian among its ordinary rocks.

The most conspicuous features of the entire region, Mount Ararat (16,930 ft.) and Mount Alagoz (13,440 ft.), are both solid masses of trachyte; and both rise above the limits of perpetual snow.

Large areas are overlain with trachyte, basalt, obsidian, tuff and pumice.

They are formed of trachyte, dolerite and basalt.