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Mountain stream sand, Maite, Región de la Araucanía, Chile

Location:

Maite, near Pucon, Región de la Araucanía, South Chile

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Sedimentation area:

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Riverbank of a mountain streamLocation of sample, geographic area

Provenance:

Provenance of the sand, description of sedimentation route.... Magmatic arc over a subduction zone, strato-volcanoes and their basement 

Composition:

Composition of the sand, mineralogy, ecc.litharenithic; metasediments (phyllite, schist, carbonate schist); VRFs, incl. basaltic to andesitic mikrolithes (plagioclase, clinopyroxene); granitic-dioritic PRFs (quartz, orthoclase, plagioclase, hornblende); chlorite, epidote, microcline

Petrographic thin section:

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