Partial melting is the melting of only part of a rock: some of its minerals, or some of their components, melt, while the rest stays solid. Decompression melting is the partial melting of a rock that rises, and so is less and less squeezed, without being heated.
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Example 14.6 (The depth of melting)
For a mantle of potential temperature , the rising rock is at when it reaches , exactly its melting temperature at that depth: melting begins about down. Above that depth it goes on melting as it rises.