The quartz in granite begins to melt at 650°C,so if we find a migmatite where quartz has melted in a granitic rock and we know the temperature in the region increased with depth by about 25°C per kilometer,we could estimate the depth that the rock had been at to be about ________.
A) 12.5 km
B) 18.0 km
C) 23.5 km
D) 26.0 km
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