Crystal mush
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crystal-mush-218-97331
title:
Crystal mush
text:
A crystal mush is magma that contains a significant amount of crystals (up to 50% of the volume) suspended in the liquid phase (melt). As the crystal fraction makes up less than half of the volume, there is no rigid large-scale three-dimensional network as in solids. As such, their rheological behavior mirrors that of absolute liquids. Within a single crystal mush, there is grading to a higher solid fraction towards the margins of the pluton, while the liquid fraction increases towards the upper
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_mush
date created:
2018-12-10T10:20:43Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T06:41:49Z
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