Mafic lava, before cooling, has a low viscosity, in comparison to felsic lava, due to the lower silica content in mafic magma. Water and other volatiles can more easily and gradually escape from mafic lava, so eruptions of volcanoes made of mafic lavas are less explosively violent than felsic lava eruptions. Most mafic lava volcanoes are oceanic volcanoes, like Hawaii.
Felsic is a term used in geology to refer to silicate minerals, magmas, and rocks which are enriched in the lighter elements such as silicon, oxygen, aluminium, sodium, and potassium. The term combines the words "feldspar" and "silica." Felsic minerals are usually light in color and have specific gravities less than 3. Common felsic minerals include quartz, muscovite, orthoclase, and the sodium-rich plagioclase feldspars. The most common felsic rock is granite. On the opposite side of the rock spectrum are the iron and magnesium-rich mafic and ultramafic minerals and rocks.
There are a few means by which felsic magma can be generated from mafic magma. Felsic materials have lower melting points than mafic materials and so will tend to melt first during partial melting. This can shift composition to something more felsic. Another process is called fractional crystalization. Here, more mafic material crystallizes and settles out of a magma chamber, making the remaining molten material more felsic. Finally, as mafic magma moves though continental crust, which is generally felsic in composition, it incorporates some of the rock and becomes more felsic.
Paricutin erupted mafic lava.
Composite volcanoes can erupt both mafic and felsic material, but intermediate material is the most common.
mafic lava is the KIND of lava produced in mount (mt) Fuji.
A mafic lava flow will move faster than a felsic lava flow due to its lower viscosity. However, felsic magma tends to erupt explosively, producing fast-moving pyroclastic flows instead of lava flows.
The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens produced dacite, which has an intermediate-felsic composition.
Mafic lava is hotter than felsic lava and therefore flows faster.
Paricutin erupted mafic lava.
Composite volcanoes can erupt both mafic and felsic material, but intermediate material is the most common.
mafic lava is the KIND of lava produced in mount (mt) Fuji.
Mauna loa erupts mafic lava.
A mafic lava flow will move faster than a felsic lava flow due to its lower viscosity. However, felsic magma tends to erupt explosively, producing fast-moving pyroclastic flows instead of lava flows.
The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens produced dacite, which has an intermediate-felsic composition.
As a shield volcano, Mauna Kea erupts mafic lava.
it has mafic and felsic duhhhhh
== == Felsic lava has a higher silica content than mafic lava. Felsic lava is slower moving (high viscosity) than the less viscous mafic lava. Mafic lava is higher in dark minerals and higher in the elements iron and magnesium.
Mafic magma and Felsic magma.
mafic because it is-dark colored. Ultramafic - no light colored mineral which means it it attracts most heat from a volcano taking it longer to cool down from the lighter, in between substance known as felsic :D