Geology & Earth Science
Bowen's Reaction Series
T_crys: olivine → … → quartz
As a basaltic melt cools the cooling front sweeps down in temperature and minerals lock in one at a time — high-temperature olivine and pyroxene first, low-temperature feldspar and quartz last — the sequence Bowen deduced that explains why igneous rocks share their mineral company.
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