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Partial Melting

Partial Melting is a magmatic process in which a polycrystalline rock undergoes incongruent melting such that only certain mineral phases melt at lower temperatures, producing a silicate melt compositionally distinct from the bulk rock while leaving a refractory residue.

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Derivation of some modern arc magmas by melting of young subducted lithosphere

Marc J. Defant, Mark S. Drummond · Nature · 1990 · 4.3K citations

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Size effect on the melting temperature of gold particles

Ph. Buffat, JP Borel · Physical review. A, General physics · 1976 · 3.3K citations · Full text

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Dehydration Melting of Metabasalt at 8–32 kbar: Implications for Continental Growth and Crust-Mantle Recycling

Robert P. Rapp, E. Bruce Watson · Journal of Petrology · 1995 · 3.3K citations

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The Volume and Composition of Melt Generated by Extension of the Lithosphere

Dan McKenzie, M. J. Bickle · Journal of Petrology · 1988 · 2.9K citations

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An improved and extended internally consistent thermodynamic dataset for phases of petrological interest, involving a new equation of state for solids

T. J. B. Holland, Roger Powell · Journal of Metamorphic Geology · 2011 · 2.4K citations

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    Donald B. Dingwell

    Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany

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    Peter J. Wyllie

    University of Chicago, United States

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    Harald Behrens

    Leibniz University Hannover, Germany

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    François Holtz

    Leibniz University Hannover, Germany

    64 publications · 5.8K citations

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    T. L. Grove

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

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  5. California Institute of Technology

    Pasadena, United States

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