As the hot, melted magma is intruded into the older green layer of the model in the previous photo, the green layer is partially melted and collapses into the melted magma chamber below it allowing the next youngest orange layer to settle down into the melted magma to take the place of where the green layer had been. This process is called magmatic stoping.
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