silicic

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The silicic ones contain more gas and tend to erupt explosively; the mafic ones, more lava floes.

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of, related to, or derived from silica

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of, related to, or derived from silica

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The silicic ones contain more gas and tend to erupt explosively; the mafic ones, more lava floes.

Andesitic is the midrange member of the continuum from rhyolitic (silicic, explosive) and basaltic (mafic/ultramafic, more lava and oozing) end members.

Sufficient injection of silicic acid and aluminum into the ocean could accelerate this process.

I presume basalt is in the mafic group, and the other two are silicic?

In general, volcanoes are classified as silicic or mafic.

Helens (silicic), the latter of which was far more explosive due to high silica content, which increases magma viscosity and acts as a trap for (superheated) water and other substances.

Which if you simply mix with water makes hydrochloric acid and silicic acid, both of which are harmless in the environment, and are only a very short term problem when in high concentration.

>In general, volcanoes are classified as silicic or mafic.

Because acidification has an opposite effect on silica shells in comparison with aragonite or calcite shells, which prevents the efficient recycling of the dead diatoms, the global effect will be a decrease in the concentration of silicic acid in sea water, which will diminish the abundance of diatoms and of other living beings that need silica.