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Xenolith - A Ferida EarthCache

Hidden : 4/5/2024
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   other (other)

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Xenolith - A Ferida


Para rexistrar esta caché como atopada, debes enviar unha mensaxe ao autor desta caché respondendo correctamente ás seguintes preguntas:

De costas ao fito do KM 0 e mirando a Ferida é posible observar o fenómeno proposto. Consulta o Spoiler se tes dúbidas.


1. O gran do xenolito é máis grande ou máis pequeno que o gran da rocha circundante?

2. Observando con moita atención, podemos observar que unha das rochas é menos resistente á erosión. Cal é a rocha hóspede ou o xenolito menos resistente?

3. Indica coas túas palabras que rocha é a máis antiga, o xenolito ou a rocha que a rodea?

4. Aínda que non é obrigatorio, fai unha foto túa ou algo que te identifique na zona, sempre que non sexa posible estimar as respostas a partir dela.




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To claim this EarthCache as found you should send to this cache owner a message answering the following questions:


With your back to the KM 0 landmark and facing Ferida it is possible to observe the proposed phenomenon. See the Spoiler if in doubt.

1. Is the grain of the xenolith larger or smaller than the grain of the surrounding rock?

2. Observing very carefully, we can see that one of the rocks is less resistant to erosion. Which is less resistant host rock or xenolith?


3. In your words, indicate which rock is the oldest, the xenolith or the rock that surrounds it?

4. Although it is not mandatory, take a photo of yourself or something that identifies you in the area, as long as it is not possible to estimate the answers from it.



If you believe you have successfully completed this EarthCache goals and has already sent to this cache owner all the requirements as requested, Please, feel free to log it as found. Later we will verify the requirements sent and, if necessary, contact you in order to make the necessary corrections to your log.

Xenólito / Xenolith

Durante o desenvolvemento e endurecemento das rochas, ás veces interveñen fragmentos de rochas máis antigas, converténdose estes en xenolitos. Este termo (xenolito) aplícase case exclusivamente á descrición das integracións nas rochas inxeas durante a erupción e a localización do magma. Os xenolitos poden ser varridos ao longo da marxe dunha cámara de magma arrincándoos das paredes dun tubo de lava, ou mediante diatremas explosivas (chemineas volcánicas), ou varridos ao longo da base dun fluxo de lava ata a superficie terrestre (ríos de magma). O xenolito é sempre máis antigo que a rocha que o rodea (rocha que encerra).

Cando nos atopamos ante o mesmo proceso nunha intrusión nativa, pero o que está implicado é só un cristal, o fenómeno chámase xenocristal. Os exemplos inclúen cristais de cuarzo en lavas pobres en sílice e diamantes en diatremas de kimberlita.

Aínda que se aplica esencialmente ás rochas inxeais, unha interpretación máis completa tamén pode incluír fragmentos de rochas máis antigas incluídos en rochas sedimentarias. Tamén se atopan ás veces en meteoritos.

Para que sexa considerado un verdadeiro xenolito, a rocha integrada debe ser diferente da integral; se é semellante, o fenómeno denomínase autolito.





Fontes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenolith

“A xenolith ("foreign rock") is a rock fragment that becomes enveloped in a larger rock during the latter's development and solidification. In geology, the term xenolith is almost exclusively used to describe inclusions in igneous rock during magma emplacement and eruption. Xenoliths may be engulfed along the margins of a magma chamber, torn loose from the walls of an erupting lava conduit or explosive diatreme or picked up along the base of a flowing body of lava on the Earth's surface. A xenocryst is an individual foreign crystal included within an igneous body. Examples of xenocrysts are quartz crystals in a silica-deficient lava and diamonds within kimberlite diatremes. Xenoliths can be non-uniform within individual locations, even in areas which are spatially limited, e.g. rhyolite-dominated lava of Niijimavolcano (Japan) contains two types of gabbroic xenoliths which are of different origin - they were formed in different temperature and pressure conditions.

Although the term xenolith is most commonly associated with igneous inclusions, a broad definition could include rock fragments which have become encased in sedimentary rock. Xenoliths are sometimes found in recovered meteorites.

To be considered a true xenolith, the included rock must be identifiably different from the rock in which it is enveloped; an included rock of similar type is called an autolith or a cognate inclusion.”


Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenolith


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