One major difference between basaltic and granitic magma is their specific mineral contents.
Boundary of granitic magma.
A continuous section through reworked archaean crust records the generation of granitic magma and its subsequent development in the opatica subprovince in the canadian shield.
3 2 magma and magma formation magmas can vary widely in composition but in general they are made up of only eight elements.
Prentice hall boundary layer crystallization liquid immiscibility in the fo sio2 system liquid immiscibility figure 6 12.
From winter 2001 an introduction to igneous and metamorphic petrology.
Granitic magmas extracted from crustal sources can form over a wide variety of p t and ah 2 o conditions.
In order of importance.
Partial melting generates a magma that is nearer the felsic granitic end of the compositional spectrum than the parent rock from which it was derived when a rock undergoes partial melting it will form a melt that is enriched in ions from minerals with the lowest melting temperatures while the unmelted portion is composed of minerals with higher melting temperatures.
Therefore even if convection can not account for magma transport across solidus boundary it can account for magma transport in a partially melted lower crust or in large granitic bodies.
Granitic or rhyolitic magmas and andesitic magmas are generated at convergent plate boundaries where the oceanic lithosphere the outer layer of earth composed of the crust and upper mantle is subducted so that its edge is positioned below the edge of the continental plate or.
There the transition from palaeosome to granite was a closed system process through intermediate stages of patch migmatite and diatexite.
The boundary that separates the two subprovinces corresponds roughly to the southwestern margin of the la posta superunit but in some places extends into the la posta granitic province.
Large batholiths for example are commonly form by the coallescence of small bodies of different chimical composition.
Oxygen silicon aluminum iron calcium sodium magnesium and potassium figure 3 6.