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On the importance of crystallization-differentiation for the generation of SiO2-rich melts and the compositional build-up of arc (and continental) crust

Oliver Jagoutz and Benjamin Klein
American Journal of Science January 2018, 318 (1) 29-63; DOI: https://doi.org/10.2475/01.2018.03
Oliver Jagoutz
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
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Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
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    • INTRODUCTION
    • ARGUMENT 1: FIELD OBSERVATIONS
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    • ARGUMENT 4: THE DISTRIBUTION OF IGNEOUS ROCK COMPOSITIONS: A DEARTH(?) OF INTERMEDIATE COMPOSITIONS
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