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Magma Contamination

Magma Contamination is a petrological process in which a magma assimilates and chemically interacts with foreign materials from the surrounding country rock or coeval crustal rocks, thereby altering its original composition during ascent, emplacement, or storage within the Earth's crust.

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High-magnesian andesite from Mount Shasta: A product of magma mixing and contamination, not a primitive mantle melt

Martin J. Streck, William P. Leeman, John Chesley · Geology · 2007 · 490 citations

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Microsampling and Isotopic Analysis of Igneous Rocks: Implications for the Study of Magmatic Systems

Jon P. Davidson, D. J. Morgan, B. L. A. Charlier et al. · Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences · 2007 · 455 citations · Full text

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Basalt contamination by continental crust: Some experiments and models

E. Bruce Watson · Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology · 1982 · 389 citations

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Crustal contamination versus enriched mantle: 143Nd/144Nd and 87Sr/86Sr evidence from the Italian volcanics

Chris J. Hawkesworth, R. Vollmer · Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology · 1979 · 342 citations

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Recharge in Volcanic Systems: Evidence from Isotope Profiles of Phenocrysts

Jon P. Davidson, Frank J. III Tepley · Science · 1997 · 305 citations

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Authors

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  1. JP
    Jon P. Davidson

    Durham University, United Kingdom

    6 publications · 1.2K citations

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  2. CL
    Chusi Li

    Indiana University Bloomington, United States

    3 publications · 377 citations

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  3. RN
    R. N. Thompson

    Durham University, United Kingdom

    3 publications · 164 citations

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  4. AP
    Alan P. Dickin

    McMaster University, Canada

    3 publications · 295 citations

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  5. CJ
    Chris J. Hawkesworth

    The Open University, United Kingdom

    3 publications · 388 citations

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Institutions

183

  1. United States Geological Survey

    Reston, United States

    7 h-index

    9 publications

    796 citations

  2. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    5 h-index

    5 publications

    375 citations

  3. The Open University

    Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

    5 h-index

    9 publications

    1.3K citations

  4. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    5 h-index

    14 publications

    450 citations

  5. Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia

    Rome, Italy

    5 h-index

    14 publications

    1K citations

  6. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    562 citations

  7. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    4 h-index

    8 publications

    210 citations

  8. University of Leeds

    Leeds, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    1.3K citations

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  1. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

    19 publications · 1.9K citations

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  2. Earth and Planetary Science Letters

    9 publications · 614 citations

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  3. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

    9 publications · 358 citations

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  4. Lithos

    9 publications · 334 citations

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  5. Journal of Petrology

    7 publications · 804 citations

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