{"id":969,"date":"2021-06-17T10:36:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T07:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/?post_type=glossary&#038;p=969"},"modified":"2021-08-13T09:35:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T06:35:04","slug":"trachyte","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/glossary\/trachyte\/","title":{"rendered":"Trachyte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"glossaryLink\"  aria-describedby=\"tt\"  data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemTitle&gt;Trachyte&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;&amp;lt;!-- wp:paragraph --&amp;gt;Trachyte is a fine grained, usually porphyritic, extrusive volcanic rock having alkali feldspars and minor mafic minerals as the main component and a possibly small amount of sodic plagioclase.&amp;lt;br\/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;!-- \/wp:paragraph --&amp;gt;&amp;lt;!-- wp:paragraph --&amp;gt;Most of the volcanic edifices along the Kenya rift are made up of thick lava piles composed of predominantly trachytic lavas which have build up low-angle volcanic shields.&amp;lt;br\/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;!-- \/wp:paragraph --&amp;gt;&lt;\/div&gt;\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/glossary\/trachyte\/\"  target=\"_blank\"  data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]'  tabindex='0' role='link'>Trachyte<\/a> is a fine grained, usually porphyritic, extrusive volcanic rock having alkali feldspars and minor mafic minerals as the main component and a possibly small amount of sodic plagioclase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of the volcanic edifices along the Kenya rift are made up of thick lava piles composed of predominantly trachytic lavas which have build up low-angle volcanic shields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"glossaryLink\" aria-describedby=\"tt\" data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemTitle&gt;Trachyte&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;&amp;lt;!-- wp:paragraph --&amp;gt;Trachyte is a fine grained, usually porphyritic, extrusive volcanic rock having alkali feldspars and minor mafic minerals as the main component and a possibly small amount of sodic plagioclase.&amp;lt;br\/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;!-- \/wp:paragraph --&amp;gt;&amp;lt;!-- wp:paragraph --&amp;gt;Most of the volcanic edifices along the Kenya rift are made up of thick lava piles composed of predominantly trachytic lavas which have build up low-angle volcanic shields.&amp;lt;br\/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;!-- \/wp:paragraph --&amp;gt;&lt;\/div&gt;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/glossary\/trachyte\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">Trachyte<\/a> is a fine grained, usually porphyritic, extrusive volcanic rock having alkali feldspars and minor mafic minerals as the main component and a possibly small [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-969","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1105,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/969\/revisions\/1105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}