Mountain stream sand, Maite, Región de la Araucanía, Chile
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Near Maite, S. Chile | Coarse sand |
Location | Maite, near Pucon, Región de la Araucanía, South Chile |
Depositional facies | Riverbank of a mountain stream |
Provenance | Magmatic arc over a subduction zone, strato-volcanoes and their basement |
Composition | litharenithic; metasediments (phyllite, schist, carbonate schist); VRFs, incl. basaltic to andesitic mikrolithes (plagioclase, clinopyroxene); granitic-dioritic PRFs (quartz, orthoclase, plagioclase, hornblende); chlorite, epidote, microcline |
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Bright field | Dark field |
Sample number | heubeck0066 |
Collector | Christoph Heubeck, Institut für Geologische Wissenschaften, FU Berlin |
Date of sampling | 14.1.2005 |
Comments:
high variability of components, mixture of different provenances; typical mountain stream sediment (compare with Entenlochklamm)
