Deep crustal hot zone

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title: Deep crustal hot zone
text: The Deep Crustal Hot Zone (DCHZ), or just deep hot zone, is a zone in the lower crust where hot mantle material intrudes. In a volcanic arc setting, hot, molten material from the mantle may intrude into the lower crust. This hot material generates a new, more evolved melt in this area of the crust, which may collect and migrate upwards towards the upper crust. Here, it would collect in a magma chamber and later erupt. The upper crust consists mainly of evolved, intermediate to silicic magmatic r
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