Author Question: What are the effects of magma mixing on magma composition? What will be an ideal ... (Read 75 times)

kwoodring · **on:** Jul 15, 2018

What are the effects of magma mixing on magma composition? What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

What are the effects of assimilation on magma composition? What will be an ideal response?

miss_1456@hotmail.com · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 15, 2018

Answer to Question 1

If magmas of different composition come into contact in a magma chamber, they will mix. The result
will be a magma that is different from both of the original magmas in the chamber.

Answer to Question 2

As magma rises through preexisting rock, known as country rock, it heats the walls of the conduit so
that the country rock may partially or completely melt and become part of the magma. The country
rock rarely has the same composition as the magma, so it changes the composition of the magma.