________ describes how an entire suite of silicate minerals can form from a single basaltic magma as it cools and crystallizes.
A)The theory of plate tectonics
B)Moh's hardness scale
C)Bowen's reaction series
D)The geologic rock cycle

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Bowen's reaction series describes how minerals form from cooling magma, with higher temperature minerals crystallizing first and lower temperature minerals forming later. This process can explain how a suite of silicate minerals can form from a single magma. The other options are not relevant to this specific geological process.

________ Describes How an Entire Suite of Silicate Minerals Can