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Over 330 bulk chemical analyses of rocks (Oligocene or Miocene to Recent) from the Mexican Volcanic Belt (MVB) have been compiled. These analyses all together represent a calc-alkaline sequence of continental margin type. The North-Eastern part of the Belt seems to overlap with another volcanic province, namely. Eastern Cordillera in which magmas are mostly of alkaline sequence. A model involving fractional crystallization as the principal mechanism is proposed for magma genesis in the MVB.
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Pal, S., Lopez, M., Perez, J. et al. Magma characterization of the Mexican volcanic belt (Mexico). Bull Volcanol 41, 379–389 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02597372
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