First of all there is no such thing as a mafic or a felsic "mineral". There can be mafic and felsic rocks.
Mafic rocks have a high magnesium and iron content.
Felsic rocks enriched with lighter elements such as oxygen and silicon.
Olivine is a mafic mineral. It is most abundant in ultramafic rocks.
Mafic magma and rock are higher in density that felsic magma and rock.
Neither. The terms mafic and felsic refer to the composition of igneous rocks, which are dominated by silicate minerals. Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of carbonate minerals. The terms mafic and felsic do no apply to it.
Rhyolite is not a mafic rock, but a felsic rock, high in silicates, and similar to granite in composition.
NO it is felsic
Is mineral amphibolite a felsic, mafic or intermidiate in term of color
Olivine is a mafic mineral. It is most abundant in ultramafic rocks.
Mafic magma and rock are higher in density that felsic magma and rock.
Felsic rocks have a lower melting point than mafic rocks and felsic magma has a lower temperature. In other words, felsic magma is not hot enough to melt mafic rock while mafic magma is hot enough to melt felsic rock.
felsic
Neither. The terms mafic and felsic refer to the composition of igneous rocks, which are dominated by silicate minerals. Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of carbonate minerals. The terms mafic and felsic do no apply to it.
Rhyolite is not a mafic rock, but a felsic rock, high in silicates, and similar to granite in composition.
felsic is orthoclase, quartz, and biotite. mafic is olivine, pyroxene, and calcium rich plagioclase. I am still researching intermediate.
NO it is felsic
mafic because it is-dark colored. Ultramafic - no light colored mineral which means it it attracts most heat from a volcano taking it longer to cool down from the lighter, in between substance known as felsic :D
Oceanic crust is mafic.
No. The terms mafic and felsic apply to igneous rocks. Limestone is a sedimentary/biochemical rock and so cannot be said to be mafic, felsic, or intermediate.