Late Mesozoic East Asian magmatic province: structure, magmatic signature, formation conditions

Petrogenesis of the Dullstroom Formation, Bushveld Magmatic Province, South Africa

The Precambrian Dullstroom Formation of South Africa, which is predominantly composed of basaltic andesites interbedded with subordinate sedimentary and felsic volcanic strata, represents the ®rst phase of an extended period of magmatism that was responsible for the Bushveld Magmatic Province, including the extrusive Rooiberg Group and the intrusive Bushveld Complex. New geochemical and isotopi...

Studies of Magmatic Systems

Magmatic Processes : Physicochemical Principles

The viscosities of eight melt compositions in the System albite-H20-F20_1 have been determined at high pressure and temperature. Measurements were performed using the falling sphere method at 1000-1600°C and 2.5 to 22.5 kbar. Fluorine and water strongly decrease the viscosity of albite melt at all pressures and temperatures investigated. The viscosity of a fluorine-bearing albitic melt decrease...

Magmatic ”Quantum-Like” Systems

Quantum computation has suggested, among others, the consideration of ”non-quantum” systems which in certain respects may behave ”quantum-like”. Here, what algebraically appears to be the most general possible known setup, namely, of magmas is used in order to construct ”quantum-like” systems. The resulting magmatic composition of systems has as a well known particular case the tensor products.

Solidification fronts and magmatic evolution

From (3. F. Becker's and L. V. Pirsson's early enunciations linking the dynamics of magma chambers to the rock records of sills and plutons to this day, two features stand at the centre of nearly every magmatic process: solidification fronts and phenocrysts. The structure and behaviour of the envisioned solidification front, however, has been mostly that akin to non-silicate, non-multiply-satur...