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Making Sense of Igneous Rock Composition- Academic Version Directions: Use your igneous rocks notes, your igneous rocks lab, and your Bowen’s Reaction Series chart to fill out the table separating 3 general colors of igneous rocks. Light Colored Rocks (white, clear, light gray, pink) Intermediate Colored Rocks (mix of light and dark crystals) Dark Colored Rocks (dark gray, black, green) vocabulary term for color elements in compounds minerals present type of crust plate boundary viscosity of lava flow type of volcanic eruption Bowen’s Reaction Series Background Information: Bowen’s Reaction Series explains why certain types of minerals are usually found together in igneous rocks. As magma cools, certain minerals begin to form at different temperatures. The continuous series on the right explains the evolution of plagioclase feldspars from being calcium-rich, to more sodium-rich. The discontinuous series on the left slide describes the formation of the mafic minerals olivine, pyroxene, amphibole, and biotite mica. As temperatures begin to cool further, the two branches merge and we begin to see minerals common to the felsic igneous rocks. 1. Which mineral crystallizes at the highest temperature? What is the percent silica content? 2. Which mineral crystallizes at the lowest temperature? What is the percent silica content? 3. Based on your answers to the previous two questions, how does silica content affect the temperature at which minerals crystallize in magma? 4. As the magma chamber cools, ools, and the different minerals reach the temperature at which they crystallize, what happens to the percent silica content of the remaining magma? 5. If a rising magma bubble started out with the compounds that form the mineral Olivine, why would it have a more Felsic composition as it cooled near the surface? What What’s in a magma Chamber?