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basic volcanic rock [1 record]

Record 1 2001-03-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
  • Geochemistry
  • Vulcanology and Seismology
CONT

The weathering of basic volcanics in the greenstone belts would have yielded ample iron and silica.

CONT

The formation of these copper concentrations was probably dependent on a supply of copper from the erosion of neighbouring basic volcanic rocks ...

CONT

The general correlation of ore types with basic to acid volcanics favours a magmatic origin.

OBS

"Basic" is one of four subdivisions of a widely used system for classifying igneous rocks based on their silica content: acidic, intermediate, basic, and ultrabasic.

OBS

See records "basic rock" and "volcanic rock."

OBS

As a noun, "volcanic" is usually plural.

Key term(s)
  • basic volcanics

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
  • Géochimie
  • Volcanologie et sismologie
CONT

Les roches volcaniques basiques dans le faciès schiste vert son formées de plagioclase, d'actinolite et de chlorite.

CONT

[...] on distingue [...] trois sous-ensembles : or des faciès sédimentaires associés au volcanisme acide, or dans un ensemble de volcanites basiques évoluant vers l'acide, or dans volcanites basiques et, notamment, ceintures de roches vertes métamorphisées.

Spanish

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