What are melting of felsic rocks?

Melting of felsic rocks is like turning a hard chocolate bar into warm gooey chocolate by heating it up.

Imagine you have a big block of solid chocolate, that's like felsic rock, which is a type of tough, light-colored rock. Now, if you put it in the oven or near a fire, it starts to get soft and eventually becomes liquid chocolate, just like how melting works for rocks.

Felsic rocks are made of minerals that are not too heavy, kind of like the sugar and cocoa in chocolate. When they're heated deep inside the Earth, maybe from moving plates or hot magma nearby, they start to melt slowly, turning into a thick, runny liquid called magma.

Think about how your favorite candy melts in your hand on a sunny day, that's heat doing its job! Deep underground, rocks can be heated just like that. The more heat they get, the easier it is for them to go from solid to liquid.

So, melting of felsic rocks is just the Earth’s way of making chocolate out of rock, no magic needed, just a little warmth and patience!