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What element is abundant in earths crust and combines with oxygen to form rocks and minerals?
Silicon
Where on earth are minerals found?
Minerals make up the rocks of earth, so minerals are found wherever there are rocks at the surface. Water too is a mineral so this includes the oceans.
what are plants that make up earths crust?
The crust is made of solid rocks and minerals. Beneath the crust is the mantle, which is also mostly solid rocks and minerals, but punctuated by malleable areas of semi-solid magma. At the center of the Earth is a hot, dense metal core.
What is the most common group of minerals and What is the percentage of the crust do they make up?
Silicate minerals are the most common group of minerals, comprising about 90% of the Earth's crust. They are characterized by silicon and oxygen atoms linked together with other elements like aluminum, magnesium, and iron.
What minerals is 99 percent of the Earth's crust made of?
SiO2 makes up around 50% of the crust in the form of many types of minerals like jasper, flint, chalcedony, opal, quartz.... There is no one mineral that makes up 99% of the earths crust
What are the most common minerals located in earths crust?
The most common minerals found in Earth's crust are quartz, feldspar, and mica. These minerals make up a significant portion of the Earth's continental crust and are essential components of many rock types.
What are the two most common silicate minerals in earths crust?
Quartz and feldspars are the most common silicate minerals of the crust.
Where can you find minerals other than earths crust?
the oceanic plate
What do several minerals make that make up earths outer crust?
the answer to this question is literally earth's crust.
What is rock forming minerals?
one of the common minerals that make up most of the rocks of the earths crust
What are the two main groups of minerals abundant in earths crust?
Clay and Quartz!
How do deposits of minerals form deep inside the earths crust?
by heat and pressure
What is the definition rock-forming minerals?
one of the common minerals that make up most of the rocks of the earths crust
How many minerals make up the earths crust and what part of the crust do they make up?
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What element is abundant in earths crust and combines with oxygen to form rocks and minerals?
Silicon
What is the mineral forms?
one of the common minerals that make up most of the rocks of the earths crust
What minerals make up 90 of the earths crust?
There are ten minerals that are so common that they make up 90% of the Earth's crust. These are quartz, orthoclase, plagioclase, muscovite, biotite, calcite, dolomite, halite, gypsum, and ferromagnesian minerals.
