The nature, ascent and emplacement of granitic magmas
@article{Pitcher1979TheNA, title={The nature, ascent and emplacement of granitic magmas}, author={Wallace Spencer Pitcher}, journal={Journal of the Geological Society}, year={1979}, volume={136}, pages={627 - 662} }
The address is a wide-ranging commentary on the physical aspects of granitic magma and deals especially with the mode of emplacement. Recommendations on the nomenclature of plutons and batholiths involve both a description of the actual shape and their modeling by experimental and salt-diapir analogues. The nature of granitic crystal-mushes, wet or dry, is discussed in the light of the special properties of pseudoplastics, particularly the influence of the physical state on the sinking of…
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