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Melt Extraction From a Solidiying Mush or
Next Time You are in Rio de Janeiro...

Roberto Weinberg, Monash University, Australia

Syn-Magmatic Deformation and Melt Extraction, Alagoinhas Pluton

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Magma extraction structures of the polished floor of Rio de Janeiro's Galeao International Airport Terminal 1 Departure Hall. These photos complement my paper in Geology on melt extraction from a crystallizing mush. In this case the crystallizing "diorite" shows no sign of solid state deformation.