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Alteracion en Porfidos
Alteracion en Porfidos
Specific opaque mineral assemblages are intrinsic parts of each alteration type (Table 2; Fig. 12)
because of the direct linkage
deeper ones.}
Elsewhere,
however, lower temperature quartz-kaolinite is the dominant
overprint assemblage (e.g., Caspiche, northern Chile). The
advanced argillic alteration preferentially affects lithologic
units with low (e.g., quartz sandstone, felsic igneous rocks)
rather than high (mafic igneous rocks) acid-buffering capacities.