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What is the color of dunite?

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Light green.

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What color is dunite?

Gray to rely light green.


Is dunite or olivine a common rock?

Dunite is not a common rock but olivine is.


What is the texture of Dunite?

The texture of dunite is very rough and it also has a very crystal like feel


Is dunite intrusive or extrusive?

extrusive


Is dunite a rock or mineral?

Duntie is a rock


Does Dunite cool quickly or slowly?

slowly


How does Dunite form?

through heat lol


Is dunite an intrusive or extrusive igneous rock?

intrusive


Why dunite has no volcanic equivalent?

Dunite is composed predominantly of olivine. A volcanic rock of dunite composition would need to form from a lava/magma of dunnite composition. A magma of dunite i.e. olivine composition would never be produced from melting of mantle or crustal rocks because olivine melts/crystallises at higher temperatures than most other minerals. Therefore, melting any rock other than dunite itself would produce a magma with a composition less Fe-Mg-rich than dunnite. Dunite forms in 2 ways: When olivine is concentrated by accumulation at the base of a magma chamber (cumulate layaered gabbro); and by chemical reaction between an exsolved basaltic melt and residual peridotite in the lithospheric mantle. Pyroxene in the mantle dissolves and olivine is left behind as a residual material.


What is unusual about peridotite and dunite?

They are the only two ignous rocks that are ultramafic.


What is the density of dunite?

a bout 3.27 (most of the time 3.3 is considered)


What is dunite used for?

ok um i do not really no so um food ?\