Archean variolites—quenched immiscible liquids: Discussion
tholeiite varieties are such common magma types. Finally, a small point of nomenclature. If these structures come to be accepted as having originated by immiscibility, "variole" and "variolitic" are perhaps rather poor terms to employ, as these terms already have a precise connotation in terms of a mineralogy and texture in which immiscibility plays no part. "Ocelli" could perhaps be preferable. However, the writer prefers to believe for the present that they are in fact (metasomatized) varioles.