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  2. Incompatible element - Wikipedia

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    In petrology and geochemistry, an incompatible element is one that is unsuitable in size and/or charge to the cation sites of the minerals in which it is included. It is defined by a partition coefficient between rock-forming minerals and melt being much smaller than 1.

  3. Fractional crystallization (geology) - Wikipedia

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    High-temperature fractional crystallization of relatively water-poor granite magmas may produce single-alkali-feldspar granite, and lower-temperature crystallization of relatively water-rich magma may produce two-feldspar granite. [13] During the process of fractional crystallization, melts become enriched in incompatible elements. [14]

  4. Hasse diagram - Wikipedia

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    A Hasse diagram of the factors of 60 ordered by the is-a-divisor-of relation. In order theory, a Hasse diagram (/ ˈ h æ s ə /; German:) is a type of mathematical diagram used to represent a finite partially ordered set, in the form of a drawing of its transitive reduction.

  5. Partially ordered set - Wikipedia

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    A partially ordered set (poset for short) is an ordered pair = (,) consisting of a set (called the ground set of ) and a partial order on . When the meaning is clear from context and there is no ambiguity about the partial order, the set X {\displaystyle X} itself is sometimes called a poset.

  6. Compatibility (geochemistry) - Wikipedia

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    Compatibility is commonly described by an element's distribution coefficient. A distribution coefficient describes how the solid and liquid phases of an element will distribute themselves in a mineral. Current studies of Earth's rare trace elements seek to quantify and examine the chemical composition of elements in the Earth's crust.

  7. Granite - Wikipedia

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    Granite (/ ˈ ɡ r æ n ɪ t / GRAN-it) is a coarse-grained intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase.It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies underground.

  8. Order dimension - Wikipedia

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    A partial order of dimension 4 (shown as a Hasse diagram) and four total orderings that form a realizer for this partial order.. In mathematics, the dimension of a partially ordered set (poset) is the smallest number of total orders the intersection of which gives rise to the partial order.

  9. Texture (geology) - Wikipedia

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    In geology, texture or rock microstructure [1] refers to the relationship between the materials of which a rock is composed. [2] The broadest textural classes are crystalline (in which the components are intergrown and interlocking crystals), fragmental (in which there is an accumulation of fragments by some physical process), aphanitic (in which crystals are not visible to the unaided eye ...