Description: Dacite with almandine xenoliths
El Hoyazo, Níjar, Almería, Andalusia, Spain
8x6 cm.
Calcoalcaline-potassic magma ascended trhough Carboneras fault and pulle out garnets from gneisses and schists of basement, which were finally added to the solid rock as xenoliths.
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