Ganymede is composed of approximately equal amounts of silicate rock and water ice.

The weathering of silicate rocks also draws down carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Europa is primarily made of silicate rock and likely has an iron core.

The lighter silicate rocks presumably float to the surface.

This will continue until the temperature exceeds the melting point of simple silicate rocks.

Here, in the intense cold, ice played the part of silicate rocks on Earth.

The carbon dioxide in the rain reacts with silicate rock that is exposed as the plateau continues to rise.

Between crust and core lies the mantle, which is solid, formed from a variety of silicate rocks.

Eventually he found an outcropping of silicate rock.

They are thus, theoretically, not particularly susceptible to partitioning during melting of silicate rocks.