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    This document outlines Bowen's reaction series, which describes the order in which minerals crystallize as magma cools. It shows that mafic minerals like olivine and pyroxene crystallize at high temperatures, forming rocks like peridotite and gabbro, while felsic minerals like feldspars, quartz, and micas crystallize at lower temperatures, forming more silica-rich igneous rocks like granite and rhyolite. The series represents both discontinuous crystallization of mafic minerals and continuous crystallization of felsic minerals during magmatic cooling and solidification.

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    This document outlines Bowen's reaction series, which describes the order in which minerals crystallize as magma cools. It shows that mafic minerals like olivine and pyroxene crystallize at high temperatures, forming rocks like peridotite and gabbro, while felsic minerals like feldspars, quartz, and micas crystallize at lower temperatures, forming more silica-rich igneous rocks like granite and rhyolite. The series represents both discontinuous crystallization of mafic minerals and continuous crystallization of felsic minerals during magmatic cooling and solidification.

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    Magma Temperature: (Calcium-Rich)

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    Ronald Arosquipa
    This document outlines Bowen's reaction series, which describes the order in which minerals crystallize as magma cools. It shows that mafic minerals like olivine and pyroxene crystallize at high temperatures, forming rocks like peridotite and gabbro, while felsic minerals like feldspars, quartz, and micas crystallize at lower temperatures, forming more silica-rich igneous rocks like granite and rhyolite. The series represents both discontinuous crystallization of mafic minerals and continuous crystallization of felsic minerals during magmatic cooling and solidification.

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    BOWEN'S REACTION SERIES

    Magma Discontinuous Reaction Continuous Reaction Rock


    Series Series
    Temperature Types
    (Mafic Minerals) (Felsic Minerals)

    4/ (Calcium-rich) Peridotite
    High
    (early crystallization) Olivine Gabbro
    or
    Basalt
    Pyroxene
    Diorite
    4/ or
    Amphibole Andesite
    4/
    Biotite
    4 Sodium-rich) Granite
    4
    Low
    , (

    Potassium feldspar or
    (late crystallization) Rhyolite
    Muscovite
    Quartz

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