Water-fluxed crustal melting produces Cordilleran batholiths
Most granites and related calc-alkaline silicic volcanic rocks from the United States and New Zealand Cordillera are saturated with zircon between 65 and 70 wt% SiO2. For this silica interval, zircon saturation temperatures (Tzr) are universally lower (<800 °C) than those expected by dehydrat...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
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Geological Society of America
2016
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/54789 |