Structural criteria for identifying granitic cumulates

Cumulates are igneous rocks that reflect relative concentration of crystals and/or loss of melt and that therefore did not crystallize entirely from a magma of their current whole-rock composition. However, this definition does not help to identify cumulates, and so the problem is to determine wheth...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Vernon, R., Collins, William
Format: Journal Article
Published: University of Chicago Press 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/53381