Volcanic Sulfur Deposits in the Andes of Northern Chile (original) (raw)

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Native sulfur occurrences, which are very common in the Andes of northern Chile (18–28° S lat), are usually found directly related to summits, craters, and/or along flanks in almost all Upper Cenozoic volcanic edifices, mainly as sulfur mantos, breccias, veins, and amygdaloidal fillings. Other less common occurrences in these environments are sulfur flows, such as in the Lastarria volcano (Naranjo 1985).

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1. Département de Minéralogie, Université de Genève, 12, rue des Maraîchers, CH-1211, Genève 4, Switzerland
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2. Mineralogisch-Petrographisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 236, D-6900, Heidelberg, Federal Republic of Germany
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Ferraris, F., Vila, T. (1990). Volcanic Sulfur Deposits in the Andes of Northern Chile. In: Fontboté, L., Amstutz, G.C., Cardozo, M., Cedillo, E., Frutos, J. (eds) Stratabound Ore Deposits in the Andes. Special Publication No. 8 of the Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits, vol 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-88282-1\_55

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