As a shield volcano, Mauna Kea erupts mafic lava.
The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens produced dacite, which has an intermediate-felsic composition.
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.
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Mauna Kea is taller, but only by 117ft (36m).
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.
Mauna loa erupts mafic lava.
The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens produced dacite, which has an intermediate-felsic composition.
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.
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In hawaiian Mauna Kea means white mountain.
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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.
Is mineral amphibolite a felsic, mafic or intermidiate in term of color
Olivine is a mafic mineral. It is most abundant in ultramafic rocks.
Mauna Kea is taller, but only by 117ft (36m).
Mauna Kea is in Hawaii. Hope this helped! :D