What is the process of minerals crystallizing and evolving mafic compositions into intermediate felsic compositions? During this process, the overall composition of the magma near the top of the magma ...

More than 4,000 naturally occurring minerals—inorganic solids that have a characteristic chemical composition and specific ... formed when molten rock, or magma, cools, or by separating out ...

The source for the isotopically-enriched Hawaiian magmas contains peridotites that experienced near-surface melting prior ...

it is useful to review the mineralogical composition of common rocks that make up the soil parent material (Table 1). Primary minerals form at elevated temperatures from cooling magma during the ...

A team of geologists at the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, the Institute of Space Sciences and the Shandong ...

The processes that occur in a magma as it rises from Earth's interior leave clues in the chemical composition of minerals which crystallize along the way. One mineral in particular—clinopyroxene ...

Now, new lunar soil composition measurements collected by India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission add more evidence that the moon was once covered in a magma ocean ... the soil’s mineral composition.

Crystals of this mineral intermingle with those of salt in the Udachnaya-East kimberlite. Perovskite forms directly from the parent magma of kimberlites, and its isotopic composition is hence ...

We are also investigating the potential relationship between the frequency and magnitude of an eruption and magma injection ... to determine the major and trace element chemical composition of single ...