Geological process

Sulfide segregation

The physical accumulation of dense immiscible sulfide liquid within or beneath a magma body. Saturation makes the sulfide; segregation is what gathers it.

In the knowledge graph

Sulfide segregation is a depositional mechanism for Magmatic nickel-copper-PGE sulfide system

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