A 5-km-thick reservoir with > 380,000 km3 of magma within the ancient Earth's crust

Abstract Several recent studies have argued that large, long-lived and molten magma chambers may not occur in the shallow Earth’s crust. Here we present, however, field-based observations from the Bushveld Complex that provide evidence to the contrary. In the eastern part of the complex, the magmati...

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Main Authors: Rais Latypov, Sofya Chistyakova, Richard A. Hornsey, Gelu Costin, Mauritz van der Merwe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-09-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-19915-w