Geological process
Sulfide saturation
The point at which a silicate magma can dissolve no more sulfur and an immiscible sulfide liquid separates. Everything chalcophile in the magma then has somewhere better to be.
In the knowledge graph
- Sulfide saturation is a depositional mechanism for Magmatic nickel-copper-PGE sulfide system
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