Radiometric dating paper
30-Oct-2020 03:38
During the last stage of crystallization, after most of the magma has solidified, the remaining melt will form the minerals quartz, muscovite mica, and potassium feldspar.
Although these minerals crystallize in the order shown, this sequence is not a true reaction series.
The following quote from The Earth: An Introduction to Physical Geology by Tarbuck & Lutgens, pp.
55-57, (1987), gives us an idea of the tremendous complexity of the processes that occur when magma solidifies.
Recall that olivine is composed of a single tetrahedra and that the other minerals in this sequence are composed of single chains, double chains, and sheet structures, respectively.Most scientists today believe that life has existed on the earth for billions of years.