Layered intrusions are fossilized natural laboratories that historically have constrained many
fundamental principles of igneous petrology. Layered intrusions are typically stratiform …

Mafic alkaline magmas, such as those feeding the persistent eruptive activity of Stromboli
and Mt. Etna volcanoes in Italy, are dominated by the crystallization of plagioclase via …

One of the outstanding problems in understanding the behavior of intermediate-to-silicic
magmatic systems is the mechanism (s) by which large volumes of crystal-poor rhyolite can …

The compositional variation of clinopyroxene and the partitioning of major elements
between clinopyroxene and melt are estimated as a function of the cooling rate …

Undercooling and crystallization kinetics are recognized increasingly as important
processes controlling the final textures and compositions of minerals as well as the …

Crystal clusters are common in both extrusive and plutonic rocks, but the mechanisms by
which they form are not well-constrained. Following a consideration of the physics of …

Magma crystallisation is a fundamental process driving eruptions and controlling the style of
volcanic activity. Crystal nucleation delay, heterogeneous and homogeneous nucleation …

Studies of magmatic systems have long used the textures of erupted samples to infer
processes that control the location and duration of magma storage and drive volcanic …

The crystallization kinetics of silicate liquids were studied experimentally in the system
haplogranite–B–Li–H2O, at variable degrees of undercooling and variable water …

This study presents crystal size distributions (CSD) of plagioclase forming during
decompression experiments of hydrous rhyodacite magma. Samples were annealed at …