Fluidization as a geological process, and its bearing on the problem of intrusive granites

Abstract

"9Fluidization9 is established as a geological process; by a serial arrangement of geological examples of intrusive systems their specific characteristics are revealed; and, finally, the same characteristics are found to be represented amongst intrusive granites. Since a requisite for fluidization, on the scale of intrusive granites, is a large volume of through-flowing gas such as is known to escape at the surface only in volcanic regions, this implies that intrusive granites are likely to be subvolcanic phenomena."