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Rhyolite: Fine-Grained Felsic Rock Most rhyolites are light gray to pinkish in color, but red or even black rhyolites are not rare. Most rhyolites are porphyritic and are identified by the quartz phenocrysts and white to salmon K-feldspar phenocrysts. The groundmass is aphanitic or even glassy.
Igneous rocks are rocks that have formed out of magma (molten rock). The two types of igneous rocks most common on Earth are called granite and basalt. Granite is a rock that typically looks pink and white with black specks.Basalt generally just looks black.he Six Types of Igneous Rocks. To recap, granite is a coarse-grained felsic rock, while basalt is a fine-grained mafic rock. All of the other combinations have names too. A coarse-grained mafic rock is called gabbro, and a fine-grained felsic rock is called rhyolite.