In ancient volcano-sedimentary successions, the reconstruction of the facies architecture may be difficult because of incomplete exposure, deformation, metamorphism and hydrothermal alteration. The distinction of lavas or ...

Topaz-bearing rhyolite lavas were erupted as domes and cryptodomes during the early history of the Late Miocene Chivinar volcano, in Central Andes. These are the only topaz rhyolite lavas recognized in Central Andes. ...

Trace elements, isotopic modeling and U-Th-Pb SHRIMP zircon age constraints are used to reconstruct the eruption history and magmatic processes of the Piedra Parada Caldera. In the early Eocene, the crystal-poor Barda ...

The last three eruptions at the Cordón Caulle volcanic complex, Chile, have been strikingly similar in that they have started with relatively short pre-eruptive warning and produced chemically homogeneous rhyolite to ...

Rhyolite is the most viscous of liquid magmas, so it was surprising that on 2 May 2008 at Chaitén Volcano, located in Chile’s southern Andean volcanic zone, rhyolitic magma migrated from more than 5 km depth in less than ...

Conglomerates are scarce in the Neoproterozoic/Cambrian strata of the South American Central Andean Basin. In NW Argentina, unusual conglomerates within meta-psammites of the Suncho Formation contain rhyolite clasts that ...

A mordenite-rich deposit located in the south of the province of Mendoza (Argentina) was studied. The host rock in this area has not been previously described and corresponds to rhyolitic lavas of high-K calc-alkaline ...

High-silica rhyolite is present in various parts of southern Perú. Rhyolite from two localites, the Cailloma caldera and the newly recognized Río Chalhuanca dome field, both in Arequipa Department, belong to the group of ...