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Crystal Settling

Crystal settling is a geological process within the broader category of magma differentiation, in which early-formed crystals separate from a cooling magma due to gravitational sinking, thereby altering the composition of the remaining melt.

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High silica granites: Terminal porosity and crystal settling in shallow magma chambers

Cin‐Ty A. Lee, Douglas M. Morton · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 2014 · 408 citations

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The fluid dynamics of evolving magma chambers

Robert Sparks, Herbert E. Huppert, John S. Turner · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences · 1984 · 309 citations

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Comments on viscosity, crystal settling, and convection in granitic magmas

Herbert R. Shaw · American Journal of Science · 1965 · 307 citations · Full text

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Crystal settling in a vigorously convecting magma chamber

Daniel Martin, Roger Nokes · Nature · 1988 · 277 citations

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Evolution of Bishop Tuff Rhyolitic Magma Based on Melt and Magnetite Inclusions and Zoned Phenocrysts

A. T. Anderson, A. M. Davis, Fangqiong Lu · Journal of Petrology · 2000 · 257 citations · Full text

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  1. MB
    Marian B. Holness

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

    5 publications · 241 citations

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    Jenny Suckale

    Stanford University, United States

    3 publications · 178 citations

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  3. LT
    L. T. Elkins‐Tanton

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

    3 publications · 144 citations

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  4. AG
    Alan G. Jones

    Dublin Institute For Advanced Studies, Ireland

    3 publications · 156 citations

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  5. SC
    Sofya Chistyakova

    University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

    2 publications · 104 citations

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  1. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    8 h-index

    17 publications

    1.2K citations

  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    5 h-index

    19 publications

    481 citations

  3. Australian National University

    Canberra, Australia

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    1.2K citations

  4. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    7 publications

    384 citations

  5. University of Münster

    Münster, Germany

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    136 citations

  6. Department of Earth Sciences

    Moscow, Russia

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    422 citations

  7. Planetary Science Institute

    Tucson, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    160 citations

  8. Durham University

    Durham, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    472 citations

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  1. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

    JGR · 9 publications · 856 citations

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  2. Journal of Petrology

    7 publications · 765 citations

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  3. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

    7 publications · 457 citations

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  4. Lithos

    5 publications · 288 citations

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  5. Earth and Planetary Science Letters

    4 publications · 558 citations

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