Browsing by Author "Contreras, Claudio"
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- ItemDetermination of suitable zones for apitourism using multi-criteria evaluation in geographic information systems: a case study in the O'Higgins Region, Chile(2017) Pantoja, Gabriel; Gómez, Miguel; Contreras, Claudio; Grimau, Lissette; Montenegro Rizzardini, Gloria
- ItemEffect of carbon support and functionalization on the synthesis of rhenium carbide and its use on HDO of guaiacol(2023) Blanco, Elodie; Cabeza, Paula; Naharro Ovejero, Verónica; Contreras, Claudio; Dongil, Ana Belén; Ghampson, Isaac Tyrone; Escalona, Néstor
- ItemThe orientation of intra-arc crustal fault systems influences the copper budget of magmatic-hydrothermal fluids(2024) Tardani, Daniele; Tassara, Santiago; Sanchez-Alfaro, Pablo; Reich, Martin; Perez-Flores, Pamela; Robidoux, Philippe; Contreras, Claudio; Pinti, Daniele L.; Cembrano, Jose; Ague, Jay. J.Some of the largest magmatic-hydrothermal copper ore deposits and deposit clusters are associated with arc-oblique fault systems. Whether this structural context impacts the geochemistry of hydrothermal fluids, including their copper contents, remains unknown. Here, we investigate the copper concentration and helium isotope signature of geothermal fluids as modern analogs of hydrothermal ore deposits in the Andes of central-southern Chile. We show that fault systems broadly parallel to the regional stress field facilitate the early release of fluids from deep primitive magmas. By contrast, fault systems oblique to the regional stress field prevent the early escape of fluids and promote magmatic enrichment in copper, volatiles, and ligands, enhancing the potential to form copper deposits. We conclude that the orientation of fault systems actively influences the copper budget of ascending hydrothermal fluids, explaining the contrasting distribution of metals along distinct structures often observed in porphyry-epithermal systems and other types of magmatic-hydrothermal deposits.