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RAMIFICATION FILON [1 record]

Record 1 2005-11-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Various Metal Ores
DEF

A small vein branching from a main body of ore.

CONT

Mineralized aphophysis.

CONT

... the emplacement of a thick tholeiitic sill and its offshoots ...

OBS

An epiphesis is the same, but is not attached.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minerais divers (Mines métalliques)
DEF

Branche d'un filon [...] auquel elle reste attachée.

CONT

[...] à la base de la norite, le minerai pénètre la norite bréchique par un système de veines. [...] des apophyses cupro-nickélifères peuvent s'éloigner de plusieurs kilomètres de la bordure de l'appareil. Surtout dans ces apophyses, on observe des transformations [...]

CONT

Apophyse minéralisée.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Minerales varios (Minas metálicas)
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