The rocks at the surface of the modern Earth are broadly divided into two types: felsic and mafic. Felsic rocks are generally relatively low density — for a rock — and light in colour because they are ...

Andaman ophiolite suite (AOS) is amongst one of the ophiolite complexes of the world, which comprises complete dismembered ophiolitic sequence. It consists of ultra-mafic and mafic cumulates, sheeted ...

The Eğrigöz and Koyunoba monzogranites in western Turkey contain igneous enclaves that provide important information concerning the magma-forming processes and their petrogenetic origin in a ...

Geologists think early Earth may have looked much like Iceland—where jet-black lava fields extend as far as the eye can see, inky mountainsides rise steeply above the clouds and stark black-sand ...

Some of the Earth’s oldest rocks may have formed from the high temperatures of meteorite impacts, a new study reports. Granite-like, or felsic, rocks in northwest Canada dating back to the Earth’s ...

The mechanisms that separated the rocks at Earth’s surface into two groups may have created the environment needed for life to flourish The rocks at the surface of the modern Earth are broadly divided ...

Mixing between magmas is thought to affect a variety of processes, from the growth of continental crust to the triggering of volcanic eruptions, but its thermophysical viability remains unclear. Here, ...

Scientists have found that 4.02-billion-year-old silica-rich felsic rocks from the Acasta River, Canada -- the oldest rock formation known on Earth -- probably formed at high temperatures and at a ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The grinding of giant chunks of Earth's outer layer — responsible for burping volcanoes, crushing ...

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