TheMarcona–Mina Justa deposit cluster, hosted by Lower Paleozoic metaclastic rocks and Middle Jurassic shallow marine andesites, incorporates the most important known magnetite mineralization in the Andes at Marcona (1.9 Gt at 55.4% Fe and 0.12% Cu) and one of the few major iron oxide–copper–gold (IOCG) deposits with economic Cu grades (346.6 Mt at 0.71% Cu, 3.8 g/t Ag and 0.03 g/t Au) at Mina ...

Introduction. Plagioclase feldspar has been identified as the dominant mineral phase in the martian crust [1-2] through analysis of Mars Global Surveyor Thermal Emission Spectrometer (TES) data. Martian meteorites , samples of isolated terrain on Mars, contain plagioclase in abundances secondary only to pyroxene. Terrestrial basalts and andesites contain primary plagioclase that is calcic-inter...

Soil movement by tillage redistributes soil within the profile and throughout the landscape, resulting in soil removal from convex slope positions and soil accumulation in concave slope positions. Previous investigations of the spatial variability in surface soil properties and crop yield in a glacial till landscape in west central Minnesota indicated that wheat (Triticum aestivum) yields were ...

1 2 Relationships between anecic earthworms (Lumbricus terrestris and Aporrectodea 3 giardi) and the collembolan species Heteromurus nitidus (Templeton, 1835), which is known 4 to be attracted to earthworms, were investigated in an 8-week laboratory experiment. Our 5 aims were (1) to assess whether earthworms influence the population dynamics of H. nitidus, 6 and (2) to study pathways of influe...

soils of the arid–semiarid karaj basin in north-central iran have formed on alluvium-colluvium derived from mixed calcareous-gypsiferous marls of miocene and basic igneous rocks of holocene age. in order to characterize and classify the soils and to determine the soil-landscape relationship in the area, sixteen pedons located on different physiographic positions have been described, sampled and...

In advance of the arrival of the DAWN spacecraft at 4Vesta in 2011, it is useful to reassess our knowledge of the constitution and probable evolution of this ancient differentiated asteroid. It has been recognized for some time that the eucrite, diogenite and howardite meteorites likely represent samples from 4Vesta or from related Vestoids based upon the good match of reflectance spectra of th...