A microbial community analysis using 16S rRNA gene sequencing was performed on borehole water and a granite rock core from Henderson Mine, a >1,000-meter-deep molybdenum mine near Empire, CO. Chemical analysis of borehole water at two separate depths (1,044 m and 1,004 m below the mine entrance) suggests that a sharp chemical gradient exists, likely from the mixing of two distinct subsurface fl...

1376. [14] Michalski, J. R. et al. (2005), LPSC XXXVI, Abstract #1188. [15] Hamilton and Lucey (2005), LPSC XXXVI, Abstract #1272. [16] Christensen et al. (2000), JGR, 105, 9735-9739. [17] Reyes, D. P. (1994), M.S. Thesis, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. Figure 2: Variation of components between the weathered and cut surfaces of the granitic samples. Plagioclase feldspar and quartz values ...

SUMMA R Y. In the Dahomeyan of the western Accra Plains marie gneisses, amphibolites, and orthoamphibolite dykes in granitic gneiss occur. During the latest recrystallization, metamorphic conditions ranged (north to south) from oligoclase--epidote amphibolite subfacies through andesineepidote amphibolite subfacies to at least the medium or upper part of the amphibolite facies. Chemical analyses...

During Kand Si-metasomatism of deformed, relatively-mafic parent rocks to form more felsic, granitic rocks containing myrmekite, Ca, Mg, and Fe must leave the system as the modified rock is enriched in K, Na, and/or Si. When this kind of metasomatism occurs, the subtraction of Ca, Mg, and Fe would also be accompanied by losses of other metals present in the ferromagnesian silicates that were re...

(Tropical inselbergs: habitat types, adaptive strategies and diversity patterns). Inselbergs are isolated rock outcrops that rise abruptly above the surrounding plains. Granitic and gneissic inselbergs are geologically and geomorphologically old and occur throughout a broad spectrum of climatic zones. They form microclimatically and edaphically dry growth sites that support a highly specialized...

The clayey fissural fillings « 60!-lm and < 2!-lm fractions) associated with the NlOoo-1100E fractures, at the El Berrocal V mine, have been studied in relation to the natural radionuclide migration/retention processes in a fissured granitic environment. The fracture filled with pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, galena-bearing quartz, later mineralized by pyrite, pitchblende, carbonate and bari...

The granitic intrusives in southwest Saqqez are located in the northern Sanandaj Sirjan zone. These granites can be divided into mesocratic and leucocratic granites. The external morphology and internal structures of zircon from these granites have been investigated employing the classic Pupin method supplemented by electron microscope analysis. The zircon crystallization is a function of tempe...