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The present chapter focuses on the pressure–temperature constraints derived from high-pressure melting experiments on the origin of basalt magmas.
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Sen, G. (2014). Basalt Magma Generation: Perspectives from Experimental Petrology. In: Petrology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38800-2_7
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