The origin of granites was once a question solely for petrologists and geochemists. But in
recent years a consensus has emerged that recognizes the essential role of deformation in …

Significant volume of wet melting requires an influx of H2O-rich volatile phase. In hydrate-
breakdown melting, initial melt accumulation is diffusion-controlled and melt accumulates …

At low temperatures (< 750 C at moderate to high crustal pressures), the production of
sufficient melt to reach the melt connectivity transition (∼ 7 vol%), enabling melt drainage …

Abstract Porphyry Cu±Mo±Au deposits require the coincidence and positive interaction of a
series of individually commonplace geological processes. They, and all their genetically …

The close relationship between crustal magmatism, an expression of heat dissipation, and
tectonics, an expression of stress dissipation, leads to the question of their mutual …

Based on a case study in the Central Maine Belt of west-central Maine, USA, it is proposed
that crustal-scale shear zone systems provide an effective focussing mechanism for transfer …

Granites in both crystalline terranes and continental magmatic arcs tend to be circular to
elliptical in map view and vary in width from about 3 to 100 km. Available gravity and …

Deciphering the magmatic history of continental magmatic arcs, in general, and the growth
history of individual intrusions, in particular, is key to understanding the complex history of …

Many granitic plutons contain sheet-like masses of dioritic to gabbroic rocks or swarms of
mafic to intermediate enclaves which represent the input of higher temperature, more mafic …

The postcollisional, Mesozoic, C-type or high-K adakitic intrusions (K-adakites) of China lack
either temporal or spatial association with subduction and have K2O/Na2O around unity …