Caracas, November 2nd, 2023

Central University of Venezuela

Faculty of Sciencies

School Geochemistry

English III

Teacher: Juan Luis Orta

Student: Jainaldo Larez

ID: 25523384

Geochemical study of the weathering products of anorthosite from Cerro San

Quintín, Yumare, Yaracuy State, Venezuela.

Keys words:

- Anorthosite: are "plutonic igneous rocks that containing 90% or more

plagioclase and the other 10% consisting in iron and titanium oxide and
mafic silicates.
- Weathering: is the set of alterations that generate weathering agents in a
rock, generating new secondary or neoformed minerals.
- Igneous Rock: are rocks formed by the crystallization of magma.
- Soil: natural entity of mineral (weathering products) and organic
constituents, differentiated "in situ" in horizons

Introduction

Weathering is a very common concept within the study of geochemistry, by

analyzing its characteristics such as the degree of alterations (Incipient,
intermediate or advanced) and the weathering products we can infer many
processes through which a rock passes in nature and the behavior of the elements
that compose it
 Many of the elements of commercial interest such as titanium, iron, copper,
aluminum, zinc and nickel are exploited from weathering products of pre-existing
rocks. These minerals are relatively enriched during the weathering process,
forming part of neoformed minerals or resistates. In the case of the weathering of
anorthosite, it produces ilmenite, a resistate mineral from which titanium-iron can
be extracted.

Objetive

General

Study the geochemical behavior of the elements Na, Mg, Al, Si, K, Ca, Ti and
Fe in the weathering products of the anorthosite of Cerro San Quintín, Yumare,
Edo. Yaracuy-Venezuela.

Specific

Determine the concentration of the elements of interest in weathered rock

specimens and in soils collected in the area.

Identify the mineral phase to which each of the elements of interest is

associated.

Evaluate the degree of weathering using the parameters CIA, Imob and LOI.

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