Highly fractionated granites: Recognition and research

FY Wu, XC Liu, WQ Ji, JM Wang, L Yang - Science China Earth Sciences, 2017‏ - Springer
Granite is one of the most important components of the continental crust on our Earth; it thus
has been an enduring studied subject in geology. According to present knowledge, granite …

Ore-forming processes within granitic pegmatites

D London - Ore Geology Reviews, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Pegmatites are texturally complex igneous rocks marked by some combination of coarse but
variable crystal size, mineralogical zonation, prominent anisotropy of crystal orientations …

Chemical differentiation, cold storage and remobilization of magma in the Earth's crust

MD Jackson, J Blundy, RSJ Sparks - Nature, 2018‏ - nature.com
The formation, storage and chemical differentiation of magma in the Earth's crust is of
fundamental importance in igneous geology and volcanology. Recent data are challenging …

Formation and dynamics of magma reservoirs

RSJ Sparks, C Annen, JD Blundy… - … of the Royal …, 2019‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
The emerging concept of a magma reservoir is one in which regions containing melt extend
from the source of magma generation to the surface. The reservoir may contain regions of …

How to make porphyry copper deposits

CTA Lee, M Tang - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Much of the world's economic copper resources are hosted in porphyry copper deposits
(PCDs), shallow level magmatic intrusions associated mostly with thick (> 45 km) magmatic …

Crustal melting vs. fractionation of basaltic magmas: Part 1, granites and paradigms

JF Moyen, V Janoušek, O Laurent, O Bachmann… - Lithos, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Granitoids are a major component of the continental crust. They play a pivotal role in its
evolution, either by adding new material (continental growth), or by reworking older …

Silicic magma reservoirs in the Earth's crust

O Bachmann, C Huber - American Mineralogist, 2016‏ - degruyter.com
Magma reservoirs play a key role in controlling numerous processes in planetary evolution,
including igneous differentiation and degassing, crustal construction, and volcanism. For …

Forty years of TTG research

JF Moyen, H Martin - Lithos, 2012‏ - Elsevier
TTGs (tonalite–trondhjemite–granodiorite) are one of the archetypical lithologies of
Archaean cratons. Since their original description in the 1970s, they have been the subject …

The architecture, chemistry, and evolution of continental magmatic arcs

MN Ducea, JB Saleeby… - Annual Review of Earth …, 2015‏ - annualreviews.org
Continental magmatic arcs form above subduction zones where the upper plate is
continental lithosphere and/or accreted transitional lithosphere. The best-studied examples …

Magmatic water content controls the pre-eruptive depth of arc magmas

DJ Rasmussen, TA Plank, DC Roman, MM Zimmer - Science, 2022‏ - science.org
Vanguard efforts in forecasting volcanic eruptions are turning to physics-based models,
which require quantitative estimates of magma conditions during pre-eruptive storage …