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Fractional Crystallization

Fractional Crystallization is a magmatic differentiation process in which minerals crystallize sequentially from a cooling magma and are physically separated from the residual melt, thereby altering the chemical composition of the remaining liquid in contrast to equilibrium crystallization.

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Trace element and isotopic effects of combined wallrock assimilation and fractional crystallization

Donald J. DePaolo · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 1981 · 3.4K citations

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Tectonic Implications of the Composition of Volcanic ARC Magmas

Julian A. Pearce, D.W. Peate · Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences · 1995 · 2.7K citations

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Chemical Composition of Hawaiian Lavas1

Gordon A. Macdonald, Tomoo Katsura · Journal of Petrology · 1964 · 1.6K citations

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United Plates of America, The Birth of a Craton: Early Proterozoic Assembly and Growth of Laurentia

Paul F. Hoffman · Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences · 1988 · 1.4K citations

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Optical Absorption Spectra of Nanocrystal Gold Molecules

Marcos M. Alvarez, Joseph T. Khoury, T. Gregory Schaaff et al. · The Journal of Physical Chemistry B · 1997 · 1.3K citations

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    J. Dostál

    Saint Mary's University, Canada

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