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Zone experienced a relatively weaker thermal pulse and therefore would have<br />
experienced less melt as compared to Type 3. It is likely that Type 3 Shatter<br />
Zone initially had a lower matrix volume percent, but continued melt and<br />
disaggregation <strong>of</strong> clasts allowed greater accommodation <strong>of</strong> granitic magma. Type<br />
3 Shatter Zone may originally have looked similar to Type 2 because <strong>of</strong> this, and<br />
clast melt may have followed the conditions used for Figure 7.4.B. For a Type 2<br />
geometry, small clasts entrained in the magma channels surrounding larger<br />
clasts would also experience a greater than average exposure to magma. Melt <strong>of</strong><br />
small clasts in these channels would be preferred, while the surrounding larger<br />
clasts could not melt under the conditions.<br />
The characteristics <strong>of</strong> CSD evolution with partial clast melt are visible in<br />
figure 7.5. D s decreases over time with the loss <strong>of</strong> small clasts and generally no<br />
change in large clast populations. Starting with a fractal distribution at time zero,<br />
as small clasts quickly disaggregate, a bifractal trend appears to develop.<br />
Eventually, the slope changes completely to a trend that can be better defined by<br />
an exponential size distribution. This model can explain the progression <strong>of</strong> D s<br />
from Type 2 to Type 3 in Bar Harbor Formation clasts. Type 3 Bar Harbor<br />
Formation size distributions have the most evolved slope and the greatest<br />
thermal exposure. I cannot assume that the Bar Harbor Formation clasts<br />
completely followed this migrating CSD trend because <strong>of</strong> the compositional<br />
differences between layers. CSD for Bar Harbor Formation clasts therefore<br />
reflect the trend <strong>of</strong> partial melt in most <strong>of</strong> the clasts and the remnant clasts that<br />
did not attain melting temperatures.<br />
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