“…Under this hypothesis, fractional crystallization that was potentially 15 L min À1 Ar Auxiliary gas flow rate 0.7 L min À1 Ar Sample gas flow rate 0.6 L min À1 Ar combined with crustal contamination or assimilation is responsible for evolution of the alkaline magmas, which are highly differentiated from the transitional basalts or moderately alkaline magma. Similar processes have been proposed by various authors (e.g., Verma, 1983Verma, , 1984Halliday et al, 1984;Novak and Mahood, 1986;Cameron and Cameron, 1986;Halliday et al, 1986;Ferriz and Mahood, 1987;Moll-Stalcup, 1987;Hildreth, 1987;Halliday et al, 1987) to explain the genesis of high-silica rhyolites in many environments, such as the Volcanic Center Sierra La Primavera (Pleistocene e Mexico, Mahood & Halliday, 1988). Recent studies (e.g., Hildreth, 2004;Bachmann and Bergantz, 2004;Lipman, 2007) propose that high-silica rhyolites originated from the separation of liquids derived from rhyolitic crystal mush linked to large granodioritic or granitic plutons.…”