Granite Genesis

Chen examines the prevailing theories of how granite comes to be, following the process from partial melting in the crust through the separation of melt, its rise, and its final placement in rock. He then proposes a competing view: granite forms and stays at its melting site in the middle and upper crust, where unusually high heat flow drives the melting. The book also brings together three decades of research carried out in China, presenting much of that work in English for the first time.