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Comments on Gigapan: Migmatite on the Billy Goat Trail

  2. As North America collided with the Chopawamsic Terrane during the Taconian orogeny, temperatures within the crust started to rise. As things got warmer, partial melting occured. Minerals present in the graywacke that had low melting temperatures, like quartz, potassium feldspar, and muscovite mica (felsic minerals) all...

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