Multiple Choice
The process of assimilation ____.
A) includes melting and incorporation of inclusions
B) includes the inclusion of country rock in an intrusive magma
C) can explain some of the felsic mineral enrichment of a mafic magma
D) results in the cooling of a magma body
E) all of these
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