Is Basalt mafic or felsic

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Most mafic minerals are dark in color, and common rock-forming mafic minerals include olivine, pyroxene, amphibole, and biotite. Common mafic rocks include basalt, diabase and gabbro. ... As a result, eruptions of volcanoes made of mafic lavas are less explosively violent than felsic-lava eruptions.

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Updated: 2019/10/18

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