Andesite
At a glance
- Type
- Rock
- Group
- Igneous rock
- Crystal system
- None (a rock)
- Hardness
- Hard (5.5 to 7.5)
- Colour
- Grey, Black
- Lustre
- Dull
- Use
- Building
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Hard
Did you know?
- Andesite is named after the Andes mountains, where volcanoes erupt this rock.
- It is the typical lava of volcanoes above subduction zones, such as those around the Pacific Ring of Fire.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q181908 · All stones · All entries