Most of the silica in rhyolitic magma comes from this composition. Chemically, silica is a compound of silicon dioxide (SiO2). It is the opposite of fluidity to be viscous (in terms of resistance to ...

They looked at the composition, structure, and history of rocks deep beneath the Earth's crust, alongside information gathered from active volcanoes, to understand how magma builds up and behaves ...

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 findings were published in the ...