How are silicic volcanic and plutonic systems related? Part 2: Insights from phase-equilibria, thermodynamic modelling and textural evidence
(2022)
Journal Article
Petford, N. (2022). How are silicic volcanic and plutonic systems related? Part 2: Insights from phase-equilibria, thermodynamic modelling and textural evidence. Earth-Science Reviews, 235, Article 104250. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.104250
Thermodynamic modelling shows that, although high-silica rhyolitic melts can form through fractionation of
low-silica rhyolitic magmas the complementary cumulates do not have compositions similar to natural plutonic
granites. Rather than being gran...
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