Precipitation by depressurization and boiling in veins hosted in an extensional strike-slip duplex: Microstructural and microthermometric evidence;Precipitación por despresurización y ebullición en vetas hospedadas en un dúplex de rumbo extensional: Evidencias microestructurales y microtermométricas

Revista Geologica de Chile

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 207-227

  Herrera, Verónica ^a   Cembrano, José ^a   Olivares, Viviana ^a   Kojima, Shoji ^a   Arancibia, Gloria ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL NORTE   (Chile)

^b SERVICIO NACIONAL DE GEOLOGÍA Y MINERÍA   (Chile)

Author keywords

Atacama Fault System; Chilean Andes; Dilational sites; Fault vein networks; Fluid pressure

Indexed keywords

PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); VEIN (GEOLOGY);

ATACAMA; CHILE; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

CALETA;

EID: 24144455696     PISSN: 07160208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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