 | | Report (issue) | | Northern Chile GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL Prepared in cooperation with the Instituto de Investigaciones...Investigaciones Geoldgicas de Chile • Ill PAPER 811 Geology of Salars Northern Chile • Ill By GEORGE...cooperation with the Instituto de Investigaciones Geoldgicas de Chile Description of the distribution...playas and their closed drainage basins in Atacama, Antofagasta, and Tarapacd Provinces UNITED STATES...--------------Coastal Range and Central Valley -------Atacama Basin and vicinity -------------Andean llighlands |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Volcanic and Saline Lithium Inputs to the Salar de Atacama Linda Godfrey 1, * and Fernanda Álvarez-Amado...Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad de Concepcion, Casilla 160-C, Concepcion 78349, Chile; fernandaalvarez@udec...along Subduction, FCFM, Universidad de Chile, Santiago 758-0150, Chile Correspondence: lvgodfre@eps.rutgers...Li-rich brine contained within the halite body of the Salar de Atacama is uncommon for two reasons: First...America; and second, it is widespread within the halite nucleus and not restricted to a localized area |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | groundwater through the active Andean arc of Northern Chile L.V. Godfrey, C. Herrera, C. Gamboa, R. Mathur...groundwater through the active Andean arc of Northern Chile, Chemical Geology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo...groundwater through the active Andean arc of Northern Chile. IP T L.V. Godfrey1*, C. Herrera2, C. Gamboa2...Departamento de Ciencias Geológicas, Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile 3 Department...arc and Preandean basins in the Antofagasta Region of northern Chile has been investigated using Li, |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | production, reserves, resources and exploration in Chile: An updated review José Cabello Mineralium CG,...Escritor Manuel Rojas 1699-D, La Reina, Santiago, RM, Chile A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Keywords:...Mining Geology Chile The discovery of lithium in the Salar de Atacama of Northern Chile during a survey...production. Chile became a major producer due to the large size of the Salar de Atacama and the high...quality of the lithium brines which resulted in Chile producing 23% of world lithium in 2019. Several |  | | Report (issue) | | Calichar Caftuelas Daniel Mine San Marcos Volcanclto Salar Centenario Anatuya Prospect Boroquimlca Samicaf...Samicaf Mines La Argentina Maria Teresa Oire Ojo de Agua Rio Alumbrlo Spring Area Lagunita Libertad Loma Blanca...Tropa Pete 3erta Prospect 3lanca Lila Mine Boratera de Antuco Celti Occurrence Coyaguaima Archibarca Ravine...Spring Rio Alumbrio Spring Salar Centenario Salar Centenario Salar Centenario Salar Centenario Laguna Vilama...area area area area area area area area area Salar de Blanca Lila Archibarca Archibarca Archibarca |  | | Report (issue) | | Raul Salas 0., Servicio Nacional de Geologia y Mineria, Santiago, Chile Open-File Report 88-210 1987 ...10 Types of salars and structural features of salar crusts - 13 Mineralogy 23 Brine chemistry -...8 Sketch map of Salar Grande, a salt-filled basin near the coast in northern Chile, showing trace of...of the Atacama Fault, which cuts diagonally across the _ _ ^ _ __ __ ^ _ _ _ ,-r ^ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ __...Sketch map of Salar de Atacama, Chile, showing asymmetrical zoning in which the halite crust is crowded |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | soil gypsum, anhydrite and calcite in the Atacama Desert, Chile JASON A. RECH,*,‡ JAY QUADE, and WILLIAM...Abstract—The origin of pedogenic salts in the Atacama Desert has long been debated. Possible salt sources...atmospheric dust. To identify the origin of Ca and S in Atacama soil salts, we determined ␦34S and 87Sr/86Sr values...87Sr/86Sr) in the Andes and Atacama, suggesting extensive eolian reworking of salar salts onto the surrounding...surrounding landscape. Ultimately, salar salts are precipitated from evaporated ground water, which has acquired |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Accepted Manuscript Lithium saltworks of the Salar de Atacama: A model for MgSO4-free ancient potash deposits...Chong, Carlos Ayora , Lithium saltworks of the Salar de Atacama: A model for MgSO4-free ancient potash deposits... ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT Lithium saltworks of the Salar de Atacama: A model for MgSO4-free ancient potash deposits...Guillermo Chongb, Carlos Ayorac de Ciències de la Terra, Universitat de Barcelona. c/Martí i Franquès,...bDepartamento de Ciencias Geológicas, Universidad Católica del Norte, Avda. Angamos 0610, Antofagasta, Chile [ gchong@ucn |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | basin of the Salar de Atacama, Chile is presented. Water fluxes within the Salar de Atacama basin range...indicate, for example, that 58% of the Li in the halite nucleus and brines is derived from the south and...the basin. Solute mass balance for the volume of halite and brine in the nucleus balance on time scales... AC CE Key words: Lithium, brines, Salar de Atacama, Chile, hydrogeochemistry, solutes, fluxes, hyper-arid...processes occur in both mature and immature IP T salar depositional environments (Houston et al., 2011) |  | | Report (issue) | | and others (2011a, b)—and to the giant Salar de Atacama, Chile (Risacher and others, 2003; Lowenstein...climate; (2) closed basin containing a playa or salar; (3) tectonically driven subsidence; (4) associated...interconnected subbasins. The subbasin containing the salar is the lowest. A number of similar and related deposit...located within the Basin and Range extensional province of the western United States; in detail, it is...(Oldow and others, 2009). The Salar de Atacama (6.3 Mt of Li) and Salar de Uyuni (10.2 Mt of Li) are located |  | Amundson, Ronald, Barnes, Jaime D., Ewing, Stephanie, Heimsath, Arjun, Chong, Guillermo (2012) The stable isotope composition of halite and sulfate of hyperarid soils and its relation to aqueous transport. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 99. 271-286 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2012.04.044 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | com/locate/gca The stable isotope composition of halite and sulfate of hyperarid soils and its relation...Departamento de Ciencias Geológicas, Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile Received 29...April 2012; available online 20 June 2012 Abstract Halite (NaCl) and gypsum or anhydrite (CaSO4) are water-soluble...the Dry Valleys of Antarctica and the Atacama Desert of Chile. While each is hyperarid, they possess...mimics the observed profiles. In contrast, in the Atacama Desert where rare but relatively large rains drive |  | Sáez, Alberto, Cabrera, Lluís, Garcés, Miguel, Bogaard, Paul van den, Jensen, Arturo, Gimeno, Domingo (2012) The stratigraphic record of changing hyperaridity in the Atacama desert over the last 10Ma. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 355. 32-38 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2012.08.029 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | stratigraphic record of changing hyperaridity in the Atacama desert over the last 10 Ma Alberto Sáez a,n, Lluı́s...Geociencies Marines, Grup de Geodinamica i Ana lisi de Conques, Universitat de Barcelona, Marti Franques...Departamento de Ciencias Geológicas, Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile d Departament de Geoquı́mica...Petrologia i Prospecció Geológica, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain b a r t i c l e i n f o a b s...magnetostratigraphic data from Quillagua and Calama basins (Atacama desert) indicate that the stratigraphic record |  | Ruch, J., Warren, J.K., Risacher, F., Walter, T.R., Lanari, R. (2012) Salt lake deformation detected from space. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 331. 120-127 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2012.03.009 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | DeMenocal Keywords: InSAR central Andes salar salt flat halite ground deformation a b s t r a c t To investigate...spatiotemporal evolution of salars in the Atacama Desert in Chile (24–26°S), we use a deformation time series...related to the salar hydrology can explain this accretion, the most likely being capillary halite precipitation...act as continual groundwater sumps, even when the salar surface is subaerial (Warren, 2010). Sedimentologically...salars define a particular style of saline sump where halite precipitates near the upper surface of the groundwater |  | Houston, J., Butcher, A., Ehren, P., Evans, K., Godfrey, L. (2011) The Evaluation of Brine Prospects and the Requirement for Modifications to Filing Standards. Economic Geology, 106 (7) 1225-1239 doi:10.2113/econgeo.106.7.1225 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Institute Ltda., Pedro Pablo Rubens 2969, La Serena, Chile Adorno Place, San Diego, California 92128 of Marine...in closed basin aquifers of two types: mature, halite dominant, and immature, clastic dominant. The estimate...tonnages of Li and K are located in the Andes of Chile, Argentina, and Bolivia, and in western China and...operations (Soquimich and Chemetall in the Salar de Atacama, FMC in Hombre Muerto) are responsible for...location of an extensive Neogene ignimbrite province (de Silva, 1989) that is underlain by one of the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | NORTH CHILE s. E. HOLLINGWORTH~AND R. w. R. RUTLAND On the eastern side of the Atacama Desert an...reconnaissance study of two transects in north Chile, running E-W from the Puna surface to the coast...Bartolo area across the most arid part of the Atacama Desert, following the Rio Loa to the coast (Fig...drain southward via the KOSan Pedro into the Salar de Atacama (Fig. 1). This great salt lake lies below...locally to 3,500 m. On the western side of the Salar de Atacama the northern extensions of the Cordillera |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Accepted: 13 May 2022 Published: 20 May 2022 Centro de Biotecnología ‘Profesor Alberto Ruiz’, Universidad...Universidad Católica del Norte, Angamos 0610, Antofagasta 1270709, Chile Department of Geosciences, University...complete microbial-mat communities. Salar de Pajonales (PAJ) and Salar de Gorbea (GOR) are intravolcanic salt...level, respectively (Figure 1). that de Pajonales (PAJ) and Salar de Gorbea (GOR) are intravolcanic salt...larger[35–38]. catchments of 2000 andLomas 320 km de , respectively. Andesitic and dacitic stratovolcanoes |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Instituto de Geología y Minería, Universidad Nacional de Jujuy, Av. Bolivia 1661, 4600 S.S. de Jujuy, Argentina...intra-sedimentary crystallization of salts such as halite and ulexite. Summer rainfalls generate seasonal...evaporites, halite and borates, as well as potassium- and lithium-bearing brines but the salar processes...peraluminous plutonic complex of the Faja Eruptiva de la Puna Oriental (Middle to Upper Ordovician; Méndez...Jurassic–Cretaceous granite of Cobres (Toselli and Rossi de Toselli 1977; Zappettini 1989; Menegatti et al. 1997) |  | | Report (issue) | | concentration of supply in a few countries such as Chile and the United States. This shift would lead to...ltinga 0"1 ·:.. .... ·~ 20° Ara~uai ARG~NTINA Salar del Hombre Muerto ------tl \' ~~?-' oW~ 70' 1000...I MOZAMBIQUE Alto Ligonha district San Luis Province 400 '~ ·' ~·'.~· -~~~t~· Bougouni area oo...inventory are Salar de Hombre Muerto, Argentina; Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia; Salar de Atacama, Chile; and Silver...such as Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia and the AMAX-MOLYMET project in the northern Salar de Atacama in Chile |  | Wang, Fan, Michalski, Greg, Seo, Ji-hye, Ge, Wensheng (2014) Geochemical, isotopic, and mineralogical constraints on atmospheric deposition in the hyper-arid Atacama Desert, Chile. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 135. 29-48 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2014.03.017 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | atmospheric deposition in the hyper-arid Atacama Desert, Chile Fan Wang a, Greg Michalski a,⇑, Ji-hye Seo...Abstract Modern atmospheric deposition across the Atacama was collected by an array of dust traps that stretched...hyper-arid regions such as the Atacama Desert. The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is one of the driest places...sulfate, and borate salts are ubiquitous in the Atacama (Ericksen, 1981). A wide range of theories have...be the major soil development mechanism in the Atacama (Dan and Yaalon, 1982; Gerson and Amit, 1987; Quade |  | Strecker, M.R., Alonso, R.N., Bookhagen, B., Carrapa, B., Hilley, G.E., Sobel, E.R., Trauth, M.H. (2007) Tectonics and Climate of the Southern Central Andes. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 35. 747-787 doi:10.1146/annurev.earth.35.031306.140158 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | strecker@geo.uni-potsdam.de 2 Universidad Nacı́onal de Salta, 4400 Salta, Argentina 3 Department of Geological...neighboring morphostructural provinces in Argentina, Chile, and Bolivia. First, we summarize the late Cenozoic...broadly defining the border between Argentina and Chile, the Puna-Altiplano plateau, the Eastern Cordillera...Santa Barbara thrust belt, an inverted extensional province related to the Cretaceous Salta Rift basin (Allmendinger... This aridity is especially pronounced in the Atacama Desert, which receives about 20 mm/year rainfall |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | gravitational anomalies in the SaIar de Punta Negra, Northern Chile By RONALDA. VAN OVEt/MEEREN, Delft...Upper Tertiary inter-andean tectonic trough of the Salar de Punta Negra is being filled mainly through sporadic...eorfirmed a tectonic origin of the basin. East of the Salar, a buried graben with an alluvial fill of 550--750...Sup6rieur du Salar de Punta Negra se comble par des eourants torrentueux sporadiques de produits de d6nudation...d6nudation venant surtout de l'Est (Haute Cordill6re). Des forages atteignant 430 m de profondeur sugg6rent |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Departamento de Ciencias Geológicas, Universidad Católica del Norte, Avenida Angamos 0610, Antofagasta, Chile...detection cave thermal behavior thermal infrared Atacama Desert Mars Moon lunar caves Martian caves A B...thermal behavior of two caves in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. Through this work, we identified times...and geology We selected caves in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile due to the region's hyperaridity,...area an ideal analog for the Moon and Mars. The Atacama is perhaps the driest desert on Earth (Miller, |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | January 2015 Editor: Michael E. Böttcher Keywords: Atacama Desert Hyperarid Groundwater geochemistry Stable...the high Andes of the Atacama Desert that discharges into the Salar de Atacama. Key questions include...basal leakage of evaporitic brines from active salar(s), within the high altiplano/volcanic arc, are...groundwater inflows to the Salar de Atacama within the volcanically active and hyperarid Atacama Desert and may be...volcanic-hydrothermal waters of the hyperarid Atacama Desert has been problematic. The main difficultly |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | groundwaters associated with porphyry-Cu deposits, Atacama Desert, Chile: Elemental and isotopic constraints on water...the Spence porphyry copper deposit, Atacama Desert, northern Chile, to study waterporphyry copper ore...groundwaters recovered elsewhere in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile. In contrast, groundwaters recovered...Development, 1997; Meigh et al., 1999). The Atacama Desert of northern Chile, the driest region on Earth, receives...et al., 1989). In the hyperarid climate of the Atacama Desert, there are competing interests for limited |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Society of America Bulletin Quaternary Geology of Chile: Brief Outline KENNETH SEGERSTROM Geological Society...Quaternary Geology of Chile: Brief Outline Abstract: The Quaternary deposits of Chile are generally classified...their mode of deposition and the physiographic province in which they occur. Lacustrine, fluvial, mudflow...occur in the Cordillera de la Costa, Central Valley, Altiplano, Cordillera de los Andes, and in Magallanes...glacial deposits in the Central Valley, Cordillera de los Andes, and Magallanes. Quaternary volcanic deposits |
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