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.
Dunite has no volcanic equevalent simply because the magma that have dunite composition does not reach or go out in the surface.
The texture of dunite is very rough and it also has a very crystal like feel
extrusive
intrusive
No. It is volcanic. The plutonic equivalent of andesite is diorite.
a bout 3.27 (most of the time 3.3 is considered)
Dunite is not a common rock but olivine is.
The texture of dunite is very rough and it also has a very crystal like feel
Yes. Rhyolite is the volcanic equivalent of granite.
extrusive
Light green.
Rhyolite
Duntie is a rock
through heat lol
slowly
Gray to rely light green.
intrusive
No. It is volcanic. The plutonic equivalent of andesite is diorite.