Geological process

Crystal accumulation

Also known as Cumulate formation

The gathering of crystals that have separated from a magma into layers or masses. It is the concentrating mechanism of magmatic systems that produce no fluid at all.

In the knowledge graph

Crystal accumulation is a depositional mechanism for Stratiform chromite system
Crystal accumulation focuses Stratiform chromite system

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