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What type of rock contains high-density minerals such as olivine?
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Mafic, igneous rocks
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What rock contains high density minerals such as olivine?
Mafic, igneous rocks
Peridotite is composed almost entirely of dark silicate minerals.?
A peridotite is a dense, coarse-grained igneous rock, consisting mostly of the minerals olivine and pyroxene. Peridotite is ultramafic, as the rock contains less than 45% silica.
Does olivine rock form to become soil?
Sand is formed from the breakdown of rocks. If a rock contains large amounts of olivine, then when this rock weathers, olivine sand will be formed. There are beaches in New Zealand that are almost exclusively made of green olivine crystals.
What minerals are in lherzolite rock?
Olivine, Clinopyroxene, Orthopyroxene, Garnet and Spinel at great depth.
What would be one of the first minerals to crystallize from liquid rock in a mafic igneous sill?
Olivine
What rock contains high density minerals such as olivine?
Mafic, igneous rocks
What minerals form the rock diorite?
the minerals are olivine and pyroxene ..you're welcome
Peridotite is composed almost entirely of dark silicate minerals.?
A peridotite is a dense, coarse-grained igneous rock, consisting mostly of the minerals olivine and pyroxene. Peridotite is ultramafic, as the rock contains less than 45% silica.
Does olivine rock form to become soil?
Sand is formed from the breakdown of rocks. If a rock contains large amounts of olivine, then when this rock weathers, olivine sand will be formed. There are beaches in New Zealand that are almost exclusively made of green olivine crystals.
An igneous rock that contains mostly pyroxene and olivine has .?
an ultramafic composition
What minerals are in lherzolite rock?
Olivine, Clinopyroxene, Orthopyroxene, Garnet and Spinel at great depth.
What is peridodite?
A hard, coarse plutonic rock that contains large amounts of olivine.
What would be one of the first minerals to crystallize from liquid rock in a mafic igneous sill?
Olivine
Identify three minerals that are normally found with quartz in samples of andesite rock?
quartz garnet olivine
What the most common rock forming minerals are?
Minerals are solid inorganic substances that occurs naturally. Eight of the most common rock forming minerals are quartz, feldspar, mica, amphibole, pyroxene, olivine, kaolinite and muscovite.
What are rock forming minerals?
1 . Amphibole. 2 . Quartz. 3 . Feldspar. 4 . Mica. 5 . Olivine.
Why does gabbro have a higher chemical weathering rate than granite?
Gabbro is mafic intrusive igneous rock and contains olivine, pyroxene, plagioclase and amphibole. These minerals are unstable at low pressure temperature conditions. In contrast, granite is felsic intrusive igneous rock and contains high amounts of quartz and orthoclase. Stability of minerals are increasing top to bottom in Bowen's Reaction Series.
