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In this paper, I demonstrate that the complex structure observed in natural dendritic zircon, which crystallized from a mafic magma, can be approximated by a simple model of deterministic volumefilling fractal growth. The model comprises a novel dendritic growth process that reveals a previously unrecognized underlying structure to complex dendritic crystals, and provides an ideal way of maximizing surface area at the crystal-melt interface during dendritic crystal growth. This addresses the important kinetic effect of creating interfacial area. In turn, this relates to dissipation of the latent heat of fusion from the moving crystal-melt interface, which, in addition to chemical diffusion, is known to be a fundamental rate-controlling process in dendritic crystal growth.

Dendritic zircon formation by deterministic volume-filling fractal growth: Implications for the mechanisms of branch formation in dendrites