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Norman Levi Bowen
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Norman Levi Bowen was a Canadian geologist who revolutionized experimental petrology and the scientific understanding of mineral crystallization. Beginning geology students are still introduced to Bowen's reaction series, which depicts how different minerals crystallize from magma under varying pressure and temperature.
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Bowen's reaction series is the work of the Canadian petrologist Norman L. Bowen, who summarized, based on experiments and observations of natural rocks, the sequence of crystallization of common silicate minerals
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