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Modern granite petrology based on experimental results began with the investigations of Tuttle and Bowen (1958) on the haplogranite system Qz-Ab-Or-H2O. The results demonstrated that granite magmatism can be a viable crustal process, and stimulated many petrologists, geochemists, structural geologists, and geophysicists to work on problems related to granite magmatism. Many important ideas and findings are the results of these efforts.
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Johannes, W., Holtz, F. (1996). Introduction and Geological Background. In: Petrogenesis and Experimental Petrology of Granitic Rocks. Minerals and Rocks, vol 22. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61049-3_1
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