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A model that illustrates the predictable patterns of mineral formation from cooling mag?

a. Bowen's reaction series
c. layered intrusion formation
b. crystal separation
d. mineral composition

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Bowen's reaction series illustrates the predictable patterns of mineral formation from cooling mag.

Option a

Step-by-step explanation:

Bowen's reaction series is broken into two branches. One is continuous series. And other is discontinuous series. Bowen's reaction series is a means of ordering common igneous silicate crystals by the heat at which they form.

Minerals at the top have a relatively large crystallization heat. This indicates that they will be the first minerals to crystallize from a magma that is cooling. IF they are chemically congruous with the magma as it continues to cool, they will grow larger by the addition of external layers of additional material.

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