Geol. [f. Gr. εὐ- (see EU-) + τάξις arrangement + -ITE.

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  The name was given by Fritsch and Reiss, Geol. Beschreibung Tenerife (1868) 414.]

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  A rock consisting of layers of different kinds of lava lying regularly one above the other.

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1879.  Rutley, Study Rocks, xii. 233. The eutaxites of the Canary Islands … are agglomeratic and banded lavas.

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  Hence Eutaxitic a., of the nature of eutaxite.

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1884.  G. H. Williams, in Amer. Jrnl. Sc., Ser. III. XXVIII. 261. The structure termed by Fritsch and Reiss ‘Eutaxitic’ … observed in acid lavas like trachyte and phonolite.

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