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Figure 4.4Classification model for igneous rocks. The vertical axis shows the minerals contained in a given rock as a percentage of its volume. The horizontal axis shows the silica content of a given rock as a percentage of its weight. Thus, if you knew by chemical analysis that a coarsely textured rock sample was about 70 percent silica, you could deduce that its composition was about 6 percent amphibole, 3 percent biotite, 5 percent muscovite, 14 percent plagioclase feldspar, 22 percent quartz, and 50 percent orthoclase feldspar. Your rock would be granite. Although rhyolite has the same mineral composition, its fine texture would eliminate it from consideration.