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Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
An International Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia
Volume 42, 1995 - Issue 2
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The lateral intrusion of silicic magmas into unconsolidated sediments: The Tennant Creek porphyry revisited

R. C. Kerr Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia
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J. R. Lister Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Silver Street, Cambridge, CB3 9EW, England
Pages 223-224 | Received 25 Oct 1994, Published online: 09 May 2007
 
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The physics that controls magmatic ascent and near‐surface lateral intrusion is briefly discussed. It is argued that silicic magmas can intrude subhorizontal horizons within unconsolidated sediments to form sills that are tens of kilometres in length but only tens of metres in thickness.

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