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Sunday, June 14, 2020

Study proves that magma chambers can be totally molten - The study challenges a recently-emerged paradigm that magma chambers are huge masses of crystals with just a very small amount of melt

Title:
Study proves that magma chambers can be totally molten

By:
University of the Witwatersrand

Published:
EurekAlert!, 9 June 2020
https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-06/uotw-spt060920.php

From the article:
Wits University (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa) PhD student, Willem Kruger's study on the state of magma within plutonic magmatic systems in the Earth's crust has been published in the high impact journal, Nature Communications.