If you had a cooling magma chamber with material from the above diagram, and as it cools the material crystallizes to the bottom of the chamber. What would a graph of depth versus An% look like?

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If you had a cooling magma chamber with material from the above diagram, and as it cools the material crystallizes to the bottom of the chamber. What would a graph of depth versus An% look like?

1600
1553
1500
L
liquidus
1400
PLAGIOCLASE + L
1300
1200
PLAGIOCLASE CRYSTALS
1118
1100
20
40
60
80
WEIGHT PERCENT An
100
Ab
An
TEMPERATURE, "C
snpijos
Transcribed Image Text:1600 1553 1500 L liquidus 1400 PLAGIOCLASE + L 1300 1200 PLAGIOCLASE CRYSTALS 1118 1100 20 40 60 80 WEIGHT PERCENT An 100 Ab An TEMPERATURE, "C snpijos
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