Extremely high diversity of sulfate minerals in caves of the Irazú Volcano (Costa Rica) related to crater lake and fumarolic activity

Extremely high diversity of sulfate minerals in caves of the Irazú Volcano (Costa Rica) related to crater lake and fumarolic activity

The caves of the Irazú volcano (Costa Rica), became accessible after the partial collapse of the NW sector of the Irazú volcano in 1994, offering the opportunity to investigate active minerogenetic processes in volcanic cave environments. We performed a detailed mineralogical and geochemical study o...

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Main Authors: Andrés Ulloa, Fernando Gázquez, Aurelio Sanz-Arranz, Jesús Medina, Fernando Rull, José María Calaforra, Guillermo E. Alvarado, María Martínez, Geoffroy Avard, J. Maarten De Moor, Jo De Waele
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of South Florida Libraries 2018-05-01
Series:International Journal of Speleology
Subjects:
hydrated sulfates
sulfate speleothems
volcanic caves
crater lake
cave minerogenesis
Online Access:http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/ijs/vol47/iss2/13/

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