The Chocó-Panamá block is the land bridge that connects Central and South America forms trailing edge of Caribbean Large Igneous Province (CLIP). New field observations are combined with new geochemical, isotopic 40Ar/39Ar analyses mafic basement Chocó within Colombia. These integrated U/Pb ages detrital zircons extracted from siliciclastic carbonate rocks unconformably overlie basement. data u...

Recent studies of soil–landscape relationships in northeastern Patagonia identified fibrous-clay minerals in calcic and petrocalcic horizons developed on old fluvio-glacial plains called “Rodados Patagónicos” (RP). The objectives of this study were: i) to evaluate the occurrence of fibrous-clay minerals in the arid soil environment, and ii) to establish the relationship between the soil propert...

Ultra-calcic ankaramitic magmas or melt inclusions are ubiquitous in arc, ocean-island and mid-ocean ridge settings. They are primitive in character (XMg 4 0 65) and have high CaO contents (414 wt %) and CaO/Al2O3 (41 1). Experiments on an ankaramite from Epi, Vanuatu arc, demonstrate that its liquidus surface has only clinopyroxene at pressures of 15 and 20 kbar, with XCO2 in the volatile comp...

The Chadegan metamorphic complex is a WNW-ESE- trending antiformal structure located in Sanandaj-Sirjan structural zone, Iran.The inner core of the structure is made of orthogneiss, containing eclogitic lenses. Schists and marbles lie structurally above theorthogneiss and crop out in the external limbs of the antiformal dome. Two main deformational episodes have been documented in theschists an...

, ABSTRACT Metabasaltic rocks in the Klamath Mountains of California with 'komatiitic' major element concentrations were investigated in order to elucidate the origin of the magnesian signature. Trace-element concentrations preserve relict igneous trends and suggest that the rocks are not komatiitic basalts, but im~at~re arc rocks and within-plate alkalic lavas. Correlation of 'excess' MgO with...

Regaining the agricultural potential of sodic soils in the Indo-Gangetic plains necessitates the development of suitable salt tolerant rice varieties to provide an entry for other affordable agronomic and soil manipulation measures. Thus selection of high yielding rice varieties across a range of sodic soils is central. Evaluation of breeding lines through on-station and on-farm farmers' partic...

At El Chucho creek, located to the west of Valle del Cauca department in Colombia, some hydrothermal alterations affecting Buga Batholith rocks and dykes porphyritic quartz-dioritic tonalitic composition were identified. These lithological units host mineral occurrences pyrite, chalcopyrite, molybdenite that occur disseminated or associated with quartz veinlets. The identified phyllic, propylit...

PURPOSE To investigate clinical and histologically the bone repair in treated animals with calcitonin and sodic diclofenac. METHODS Ninety-six femoral defects were created in forty-eight animals distributed in four groups (n=24): either left untreated, treated with the sodic diclofenac or calcitonin or both. Follow-up was 7, 14 and 21 days. Histological sections stained by haematoxylin-eosin ...

Abstract Potassium-rich adakitic rocks have been used to infer high-pressure (HP) melting of thickened or foundered mafic lower crust in post-collisional settings. However, their origin remains debated because potassic rather than sodic nature. We address this debate by investigating the source Oligocene high-K granites southern Tibet, which are widely attributed overthickened crust. Our new da...