monzonita cuarcifera porfiritica a metatonalita porfiritica de color gris a gris

English translation: porphritic quartz monzonite to a grey to dark grey, porphyritic metatonalite

22:10 Nov 20, 2008
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Spanish term or phrase: monzonita cuarcifera porfiritica a metatonalita porfiritica de color gris a gris
hay una monzonita cuarcifera porfiritica a metatonalita porfiritica de color gris a gris oscuro parcialmente faneritica
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English translation:porphritic quartz monzonite to a grey to dark grey, porphyritic metatonalite
Explanation:
Note: PORPHYRITIC (texture of phenocrysts within a matrix)

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oops - spelling error in title - should read *porphyritic*
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Chris Ellison
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5 +1porphritic quartz monzonite to a grey to dark grey, porphyritic metatonalite
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porphritic quartz monzonite to a grey to dark grey, porphyritic metatonalite


Explanation:
Note: PORPHYRITIC (texture of phenocrysts within a matrix)

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Note added at 12 hrs (2008-11-21 11:07:38 GMT)
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oops - spelling error in title - should read *porphyritic*

Chris Ellison
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Thank you Chris

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agree  liz askew: No problem really! Please have the points; this must be right. I would do the same were it a medical query (close to my heart:-)..
27 mins
  -> Sorry Liz, I know, I didn't mean to be horrible, it was just that in this case the most difficult term was wrong but really close and I thought people might not notice. Please forgive me :)
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Reference

Reference information:
Indium: Geology, Mineralogy, and Economics - Google Books Result
by Ulrich Schwarz-Schampera, Peter M. Herzig ... - 2002 - Science - 257 pages
Magnetite and base metal sulfide deposition, extensive wall rock alteration, and the intrusion of porphyric quartz monzonite followed. ...
books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=3540431357...

So the first three words of your phrase =

porphyric quartz monzonite

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ournal of South American Earth Sciences : Geochronological ...
Ordoñez and Pimentel, 2002 O. Ordoñez and M. Pimentel, Rb–Sr and Sm–Nd isotopic study of the Puqui complex, Colombian Andes, Journal of South American Earth ...
linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0895981106000666 - Similar pages
by CJ Vinasco - 2006 - Cited by 1 - Related articles - All 2 versions

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The high values in the relation
Sr87/Sr86 with an order of 0,70877 - 0,71065 in the Metatonalita
of Puquí (Ordóñez and Pimentel, 2001a), estimate a source pri-
mary old continental crust which coincide equally with the Neís of
Puquí, confirming a common cortical homogeneous source. These
values coincide with those showed by Aspden et al. (1992 a), with
the type S granitoids of the Cordillera Real. The values showed
for εNd (248Ma) point for the Metatonalita of Puqui (Ordóñe

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"Metatonalita" has something to do with "tonalita"

Field relations within Hospitais Massif: A) Elliptic flattened enclaves parallel with the
main tonalitic foliation, B) Development of LTL, cutting the tonalitc foliation, C) Development
of a LTH around the microgranular mafic enclave
Fig. 2.- Relaciones de campo en el Macizo de Hospitais: A) Enclaves elípticos y aplastados
paralelos con la foliación principal de la tonalita, B) Desarrollo de LTL cortando la foliación de
la tonalita, C) Desarrollo de LTH en el borde de un enclave diorítico contenido en las tonalit

tonalitic??

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No, it =

metatonalite

PII: S0040-1951(97)00272-2
T.,, Early inhomogen, porphyric .... meta-biotite-granite & med. _,,. grained meta-leucogranite. • , Early metatonalite, metagra-. nodiorite & metadiorite ...
linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0040195197002722 - Similar pages
by B Lammerer - 1998 - Cited by 35 - Related articles
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