Figure 8. Non-mixing gabbro and granite magmas, mainland near Folly Island. This shows the typical textures that develop when two co-existing molten magmas mingle but do not mix. The dark gabbro blobs have rounded and cuspate edges, indicating that they were pliable blobs floating in the more viscous light-colored granite magma that surrounds them.

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