crystal mush is magma that contains a significant amount of crystals (up to 50% of the volume) suspended in the liquid phase (melt). As the crystal fraction...

into the spreading center, which consists mainly of a partly solidified crystal mush derived from earlier injections, forming magma lenses that are the source...

to behave like a solid. Such a mixture of crystals with melted rock is sometimes described as crystal mush. Lava flow speeds vary based primarily on viscosity...

earlier Taupō Volcano eruptions. During crystal-liquid separation in this mush, large volumes of melt and crystals were carried upwards into a melt dominant...

Benita (2014). "Petrological constraints on the recycling of mafic crystal mushes and intrusion of braided sills in the Torres del Paine Mafic Complex...

they are thought to be stored in magma chambers or trans-crustal crystal-rich mush zones. During magma's storage in the crust, its composition may be...

Putlitz B. (2014). "Petrological constraints on the recycling of mafic crystal mushes and intrusion of braided sills in the Torres del Paine Mafic Complex...

Benita (2014). "Petrological constraints on the recycling of mafic crystal mushes and intrusion of braided sills in the Torres del Paine Mafic Complex...

E. W.; Clynne, M. A. (December 2014). "Localized Rejuvenation of a Crystal Mush Recorded in Zircon Temporal and Compositional Variation at the Lassen...

multiple injections of new magma or if it is by basal settling of a crystal mush transported by slurry flow), chromites overlain by harzburgite (not always...