It continues with analyses of the properties (mechanical, diffusive, thermochemical, redox, nucleation, rheological) of melts. The dynamic behavior of melts in magmatic and volcanic systems, is then treated in the context of their behavior in magma mixing, strain localization, frictional melting, magmatic fragmentation, and hot sintering. Finally, the non-magmatic, extraterrestrial and prehistoric roles of melt and glass are presented in their respective contexts.
_Professor Dr. Daniel R. Neuville, Géomatériaux, CNRS-Institut de physique du globe de Paris, Université de Paris, 1 rue Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France.
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_Professor Dr. Grant S. Henderson, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Toronto, 22 Russell St, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3B1, Canada.
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_Professor Dr. Donald B. Dingwell, Department. Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilian-University (LMU), Theresienstrasse 41/III, D-80333 Munich, Germany.
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