Petrología y geoquímica del Edificio Antiguo de la isla de Santa Luzia (archipiélago de Cabo Verde)
Santa Luzia island is essentially formed by erosional remnants of, at least, one volcanic edifice: the Old Edifice. The remains of this edifice are now a NW-SE trending mountain range. It is a fisural edifice that follows this trend and is formed by hundreds of meters of aa-type lava flows crosscut...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2014 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Huelva (UHU) |
| Repositorio: | Arias Montano. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ariasmontano.uhu.es:10272/10656 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10272/10656 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Santa Luzia Cape Verde Old Edifice Alkaline rocks Fractional crystallization Cabo Verde Edificio Antiguo Rocas alcalinas Cristalización fraccionada |
| Sumario: | Santa Luzia island is essentially formed by erosional remnants of, at least, one volcanic edifice: the Old Edifice. The remains of this edifice are now a NW-SE trending mountain range. It is a fisural edifice that follows this trend and is formed by hundreds of meters of aa-type lava flows crosscut by dikes. Lithologic compositions are basic and ultrabasic (picrobasalts, basanites, basalts and trachybasalts), intermediate (trachyandesites) and felsic (trachytes and phonolites). The main process generating these compositional differences is fractional crystallization |
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