Partial Melting - Gallery

Gallery

  • Melting of a substance exhibiting solid solution, with a bulk composition of CB. As the temperature rises, the solid follows the blue path, and begins melting at temperature TA. The initial liquid produced has the composition CL, and its composition follows the red path. At temperature TB the whole solid has melted.

  • Diagram showing the physical processes inside the Earth that lead to the generation of magma. A to D are different plate tectonic settings.

  • Subduction in the Aleutian Islands by Robert R. Coats (1962).

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