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Lava boat (boulder) flowing down volcano slope in the Canary Islands #incredible #geology #volcanoes #geoscience #basalt #CrustalRecycling #bowensreactionseries #olivine
#pyroxine #plagioclase #amphibole #biotite #AndThen

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Bowen's reaction series (Volcanology 🌋)

Within the field of geology, Bowen's reaction series is the work of the Canadian petrologist Norman L. Bowen, who summarized, based on experiments and observations of natural rocks, the sequence of crystallization of common silicate minerals from typical basaltic magma undergoing fractional crystallization. Bowen's reaction series is able to exp...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowen's_reaction_series

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