Although basaltic magma can result in basaltic rocks and granitic magma can result in granitic rocks they can also form other rocks depending on how quickly the magma cools.
Basaltic magma has a lower silica content than granitic magma.
Describe how partial melting of the mantle rock peridotite can generate a basaltic mafic magma.
As rock begins to melt the minerals with the lowest melting temperatures are the first to melt.
Rhyolitic magmas tend to have even higher viscosity ranging.
Solidify magma with a high water content has a greater tendency to in the crust compared with a magma with a lower water content.
The rising subduction zone magma is probably basaltic in composition and is formed by the partial melting of mantle rocks.
True false the higher the silica content in lava the higher the lava s resistance to flow.
Rhyolitic magmas have lower temperatures than basaltic magmas.
Because of its low viscosity and gas content basaltic magma is geberally the least explosive of the common magma types.
Typical granitic magma contains silica water than typical basaltic magma.
Low magmas have a low silica content and a low viscosity.
Rhyolitic magma is generated along convergent plate boundaries where oceanic lithosphere descends into the mantle at subduction.
Andesitic magma is in between basaltic and rhyolitic magma with a moderate amount of silica.
Lower temperature magmas have higher viscosity than higher temperature magmas viscosity decreases with increasing temperature of the magma.
As the rising magma moves slowly up through the continental crust of the overriding plate however two things may occur to increase significantly the silica content of the magma.
What magma produces very explosive eruptions.
Basaltic magmas have a high low silica content and a high low viscosity.
Granitic magma is higher in silica than basaltic magma.
It has an intermediate density cooling point and viscosity compared with other types of magma.
Magmas have a high silica content and a high viscosity.
Basaltic magma has low high viscosity and contains little lots of gas.
Measurements of the basaltic magmas at kilauea vary from 750 to over 1200 those at vesuvius vary nearly as much.
Due in part to the lower temperature felsic magma is much more viscous than mafic magma meaning it is much thicker and more resistant to flowing.
