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

The controversy over the origin of massive chromitites in layered intrusions has recently
become more contentious than ever before. At issue is whether they are produced via …

The magmatic components of continental Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) include flood
basalts and their plumbing system of giant mafic dyke swarms (radiating, linear, and the …

Basalt is the most abundant rock on Earth. It forms the ocean ridges, slides off onto the
ocean fioor, and eventually dives back down. Basalt is the lava which pours out of Kilauea in …

Abstract The Paleoproterozoic Bushveld Complex, including the world's largest layered
intrusion and host to world-class stratiform chromium, platinum group element, and …

The vertical growth rate of basaltic magma chambers remains largely unknown with
available estimates being highly uncertain. Here, we propose a novel approach to address …

Chemical differentiation of magma on Earth occurs through physical separation of liquids
and crystals. The mechanisms of this separation still remain elusive due to the lack of …

Magma migration and differentiation processes are key to understanding the development
and evolution of oceanic magma reservoirs. To provide new quantitative geochemical …

The classical paradigm of the 'big magma tank'chambers in which the melt differentiates, is
replenished, and occasionally feeds the overlying volcanos has recently been challenged …

A close relationship between Ni–Cu–(PGE) sulfide deposits and magmatic conduit systems
has been widely accepted, but our present understanding still rests on empirical inductions …