Komatiite /koʊˈmɑːtiˌaɪt/ is a type of ultramafic mantle-derived volcanic rock defined as having crystallised from a lava of at least 18 wt% magnesium...

Widgiemooltha Komatiite is a formation of komatiite in the Yilgarn Craton of Western Australia. The stratigraphy of the Widgiemooltha Komatiite is well known...

The Winnipegosis komatiite belt is a 150 km (93 mi) long and 30 km (19 mi) wide greenstone belt located in the Lake Winnipegosis area of central Manitoba...

komatiite magma and a solid residue very close in composition to Archean lithospheric mantle, but continental shields do not contain enough komatiite...

tectonics, and allowing the production of uncommon igneous rocks such as komatiites that are rarely formed today. The mean heat loss from Earth is 87 mW m−2...

entrail-type pahoehoe lavas on land. Ultramafic magmas, such as picritic basalt, komatiite, and highly magnesian magmas that form boninite, take the composition...

iron-nickel-copper-platinum-group element ore deposit in which the physical processes of komatiite volcanology serve to deposit, concentrate and enrich a Fe-Ni-Cu-(PGE)...

and augite Kimberlite – Igneous rock which sometimes contains diamonds Komatiite – Magnesium-rich igneous rock Lamproite – Mantle rock expulsed to the...

rocks elsewhere in the solar system. Examples include komatiite and picritic basalt. Komatiites can be host to ore deposits of nickel. Ultramafic tuff...

as spinifexes Spinifex, a texture in certain ultramafic lavas such as komatiite Spinifex people, an Aboriginal Australian people, inhabitants of the Spinifex...