Descripción: Group of microstructures present in the Ordovician Yerba Loca and Los Sombreros Formations (cropping out in the vicinity of Road 150, between cuesta del Viento and Los Túneles), are described and interpreted. Cleavage, joints and fractures, shear zones, planar and sigmoid (en echelon) veins and kink bands are most common among them. Folded and domino faulted quartz veins, resulting from pressure solution contraction during formation of axial plane cleavage, are an outstanding feature and allowed calculation of contraction associated to cleavage development. The assemblage of minor structures shows coherency with the major structures hosting them and evidences a systematic displacement and stacking of rock masses from west to east. They also show the important participation of pressure solution and re-crystallization processes during deformation, along with progressive deformation due to rotation of local structures in the regional stress field.

Descripción: The title compound, N-[2-(5-methoxy-1-nitroso-1H-indol-3-yl)ethyl]acetamide, C13H15N3O3, an N-nitroso derivative of melatonin, crystallizes in the monoclinic C2/c space group. The molecules are arranged in such a way that the aromatic rings are in a planar conformation, with the alkylamide side chains in a different plane, at a dihedral angle of 108.60 (6)°. The alkylamide chains are interconnected by hydrogen bonds, constituting an infinite array.

Descripción: A sequence of plutonic mafic rocks inter-stratified with both mafic- and metasedimentary-derived migmatites is found along the San Juan valley in the center of the Sierra de Valle Fértil. This natural example shows the transition from igneous to metamorphic petrologic processes which occurred during the crystallization of mafic magmas and the subsequent partial melting of crystallized gabbroic rocks. This work studies the mineralogical changes associate to this petrologic transition. Thermobarometric estimates based on amphibole-plagioclase indicate that the mafic magmas crystallized at around 1100°C and 5 ± 0.5 kbar. The conditions under which gabbroic rocks were partially melted are estimated using two pyroxenes ther-mometry and amphibole-plagioclase thermobarometry. Similar physical conditions in the range between 740 and 840°C and 5 to 6.5 kbar are recovery from mineral assemblages in the mesosomes and leucosomes of mafic migmatites. The main mineral compositional changes that accompanied the partial process of the gabbroic rocks are: 1) depletion of aluminium content and Mg# ratio in pyroxenes; 2) depletion of anorthite mole fraction of the plagioclases; and 3) depletion of the Mg# ratio in amphiboles. These mineral compositional variations are consistent with those found by experimentally melting mafic protoliths. Experimental results showed that the temperature for promoting amphibole-dehydration melting in mafic proto-liths is of around 850°C, whereas the addition of an aqueous fluid would lower the melting temperature to around 800°C. Combining field relationships, textural features, mineral compositional variations and thermo-barometric estimates with experimental results, we demonstrated that the transition from igneous mafic rocks to mafic migmatites was due to isobaric cooling. Moreover, repetitive intrusion of mafic magmas sustained the sequence at granulite-facies conditions, so avoiding rapid cooling. The natural case from the centre of the Sierra de Valle Fértil is interpreted to expose an example of the plutonic-me-tamorphic core of the Famatinian magmatic arc, where the abnormally high metamorphic gradient provide evidence that large volume of mafic magmas reached and emplaced at paleodepths of between 16 and 20 kilometres.

Descripción: The title compound, tetrakis(μ-3,4,5-triethoxybenzoato κ 2 O:O′)bis[(pyrazine-κN)rhodium(II)](Rh-Rh). [Rh 2 (C 13 -H 17 O 5 ) 4 (C 4 H 4 N 2 ) 2 ], crystallizes on an inversion centre in the triclinic space group P1̄. The equatorial carboxylate ligands bridge the two Rh 11 atoms, giving a binuclear lantern-like structure. The pyrazine molecules occupy the two axial coordination sites. The phenyl rings are titled by ca 10° with respect to the attached carboxylate groups. The pyrazine planes have a torsion angle of ca 19° around the Rh-N bond with respect to the plane of the nearer carboxylate group and are not coplanar with the Rh-Rh bond.