Hydrothermal alteration in an exhumed crustal fault zone: Testing geochemical mobility in the Caleta Coloso Fault, Atacama Fault System, Northern Chile

Tectonophysics

Volumn 623, Issue , 2014, Pages 147-168

  Arancibia, Gloria ^a,b   Fujita, Kazuna ^c,g   Hoshino, Kenichi ^c   Mitchell, Thomas M ^d,h   Cembrano, José ^a,b   Gomila, Rodrigo ^a,b   Morata, Diego ^b,e   Faulkner, Daniel R ^f   Rempe, Marieke ^d,i  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b Andean Geothermal Centre of Excellence   (Chile)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^g Chuden Engineering Consultants Co   (Japan)

^h UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chemical mobility; Fault zone; Hydrothermal alteration; Mass balance

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; METALS; QUARTZ; SILICATE MINERALS;

CHEMICAL MOBILITY; FAULT ZONE; FLUID-ROCK INTERACTION; GEOCHEMICAL MOBILITIES; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATIONS; MASS BALANCE; PERMEABILITY STRUCTURE; WHOLE-ROCK GEOCHEMISTRIES;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

CATACLASITE; CHANNEL FLOW; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FAULT ZONE; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; MASS BALANCE; MOBILITY; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TONALITE; VOLUME CHANGE;

CHILE;

CALETA;

EID: 84900457375     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2014.03.024     Document Type: Article

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