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Mid-Atlantic Ridge [1 record]

Record 1 2005-11-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
  • Oceanography
CONT

Cupriferous pyrite mineralization of stockwork-type has been reported ... from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. It occurs in metabasalts and they put forward evidence that it was generated by sea water solutions circulating through the oceanic crust ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
  • Océanographie
CONT

Une des plus intéressantes découvertes de ces dernières années se situe dans une «vallée transversale» située au voisinage de la ride médio-atlantique près de l'Équateur [...] Des stockwerks et des disséminations de chalcopyrite [...] affectent des métabasaltes, vraisemblablement mis en place dans l'axe de la ride [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Geomorfología y geomorfogénesis
  • Oceanografía
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