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  2. MagmaFS - Wikipedia

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    Magma is a distributed file system based on a distributed hash table, written in C, compatible with Linux and BSD kernels using FUSE. Terminology and basic principles [ edit ] Magma binds several hosts interconnected by a TCP/IP network to form a common storage space called a lava ring .

  3. Magma - Wikipedia

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    Magma (sometimes colloquially but incorrectly referred to as lava by laypeople) is found beneath the surface of the Earth, and evidence of magmatism has also been discovered on other terrestrial planets and some natural satellites. [3] Besides molten rock, magma may also contain suspended crystals and gas bubbles.

  4. Tholeiitic magma series - Wikipedia

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    A magma series is a chemically distinct range of magma compositions that describes the evolution of a mafic magma into a more evolved, silica rich end member. Rock types of the tholeiitic magma series include tholeiitic basalt, ferro-basalt, tholeiitic basaltic andesite, tholeiitic andesite, dacite and rhyolite.

  5. Igneous differentiation - Wikipedia

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    Igneous differentiation. In geology, igneous differentiation, or magmatic differentiation, is an umbrella term for the various processes by which magmas undergo bulk chemical change during the partial melting process, cooling, emplacement, or eruption.

  6. Magmatism - Wikipedia

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    Magmatism is the emplacement of magma within and at the surface of the outer layers of a terrestrial planet, which solidifies as igneous rocks. It does so through magmatic activity or igneous activity , the production, intrusion and extrusion of magma or lava .

  7. Sill (geology) - Wikipedia

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    A sill is a concordant intrusive sheet, meaning that it does not cut across preexisting rock beds. Stacking of sills builds a sill complex [1] and a large magma chamber at high magma flux. [2] In contrast, a dike is a discordant intrusive sheet, which does cut across older rocks.

  8. Magmatic water - Wikipedia

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    Magmatic water, also known as juvenile water, is an aqueous phase in equilibrium with minerals that have been dissolved by magma deep within the Earth's crust and is released to the atmosphere during a volcanic eruption.

  9. Ultrapotassic igneous rocks - Wikipedia

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    Ultrapotassic granites are uncommon and may be produced by melting of the continental crust above upwelling mafic magma, such as at rift zones. Types of ultrapotassic rocks. Lamprophyres and melilitic rocks; Kimberlite; Lamproite; Orangeite (see Group II kimberlite) Feldspathoid-bearing rocks such as leucitites; K-feldspar enriched leucogranites

  10. Central Atlantic magmatic province - Wikipedia

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    Last eruption. Hettangian. The Central Atlantic magmatic province ( CAMP) is the Earth's largest continental large igneous province, covering an area of roughly 11 million km 2. It is composed mainly of basalt that formed before Pangaea broke up in the Mesozoic Era, near the end of the Triassic and the beginning of the Jurassic periods.

  11. Gabbro - Wikipedia

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    Gabbro (/ ˈ ɡ æ b. r oʊ /) is a phaneritic (coarse-grained), mafic intrusive igneous rock formed from the slow cooling of magnesium-rich and iron-rich magma into a holocrystalline mass deep beneath the Earth's surface.