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    andesite and rhyolite as part of the subalkaline tholeiitic and calc-alkaline magma series. Dacite consists mostly of plagioclase feldspar and quartz with biotite...
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    Geology (section Magma)
    at the Wayback Machine "Entrainé par les liaisons de cet objet avec la Géologie, j'entrepris dans un second voyage de les développer à SA MAJESTÉ; … "...
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    (primitive) magma formed from rock of the Earth's mantle that was nearly undepleted; that is, it was mantle rock rich in garnet and from which little magma had...
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    circles] (in French). Retrieved 10 October 2020. C. Allègre : 12 Clés pour la géologie, Belin/France Culture, 1987. Original quote in French : En brûlant des...
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    Géomorphologie. 10 (4): 305–316. Travaux du Comité français d'histoire de la géologie Cette plateforme est enlevée pour l'hiver. Cf "La plateforme scientifique...
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    iron). Native iron is also rarely found in basalts that have formed from magmas that have come into contact with carbon-rich sedimentary rocks, which have...
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    explosion which occurs when groundwater comes into contact with hot lava or magma). A maar characteristically fills with water to form a relatively shallow...
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    majority of cases, gathers in a magma chamber, several tens of kilometres deep, at the base of the Earth's crust, from which magma rises at irregular intervals...
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    joints in Earth's interior that could fill with magma. This was succeeded by a cooling phase, where the magma would freeze and become solid rock again, causing...
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    continental crust, suggesting that under the Eifel is a hot zone where magma is rising. Persistent small earthquakes and underground heating. Map of...
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    about 300 million years ago. These natural stones were formed when large magma intrusions in the Brocken granite massif solidified at different cooling...
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    shaped and affected by intense volcanism; but individual intrusions of magma also forced their way through the sandstone platform of the Elbe Sandstone...
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  • University of Lorraine 2018 - Bancroft Prize, Royal Society of Canada Géologie des gîtes minéraux. Ministère des Ressources Naturelles et de la Faune...
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    Springer. p. 47. ISBN 9783319695327. Maury, René C.; et al. (January 2014). "Géologie des Marquises : des volcansboucliers intra-océaniques effondrésissus d'un...
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    Robert J.; Szabó, Csaba (20 September 2021). "Massive methane fluxing from magma–sediment interaction in the end-Triassic Central Atlantic Magmatic Province"...
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    dolerite formations worldwide, are found in Tasmania. Here, the volume of magma which intruded into a thin veneer of Permian and Triassic rocks from multiple...
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    and in the upper mantle. For a long time, the tectonic passivity of the magma was a dogma until Ampferer's undercurrent theory changed this in 1906. Ampferer...
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    paragneiss contains a detrital zircon grain, whose core crystallised from a magma about 3.84 billion years ago during the Archaean eon. Whereas the Caledonian...
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    Java to continue his research there. His main interest was in volcanology (magmas and pyroclastic rocks), structural geology and tectonics, especially sliding...
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    Melbourne has mainly erupted trachyandesite and trachyte, which formed within a magma chamber; basaltic rocks are less common. Geothermal heat flow on Mount Melbourne...
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    orogen-associated volcanism, volcanism typical of rifting zones is also found. Magma production through the Pliocene-Pleistocene has been low and volcanoes cover...
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    gneiss will make its way to the surface once again as country rock or as magma in a volcano, and the whole process will begin again. Mudrocks form in various...
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    stone is coarse-grained - this points to a slowly cooling of the lava / magma (at the time the formation of the stone). Forbach Granite is a bright mica...
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  • His research included studies of magma rock and salt deposits. Übersicht der Mineralogie, petrographie und Geologie der Kalisalz-Lagerstätten, 1909 –...
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    by degassed magma left behind by the caldera-forming eruption. The pre-caldera lava domes were generated either directly from a common magma chamber or...
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    another supergreenhouse interval. The production of large quantities of magma, variously attributed to mantle plumes or to extensional tectonics, further...
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    and last major transgression in the Cretaceous. The dispersal of extra magma warmed the water in the ocean, and was a conducive environment for calcareous-shelled...
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    the Outer Coast Tuff Formation, releasing about 30 cubic kilometers of magma, or passively due to regional tectonics, since the island is at the intersection...
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    and seamount chains apart from a large range of crustal thicknesses and magma ascent paths, and different amount of crustal assimilations. The Andes Mountains...
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    years ago by the cooling of the magma which filled a 4 km long and 750m wide crevasse. In some areas, traces of the magma flow are still visible. The granite...
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