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CORNEENNE SILICATES CALCIQUES [1 record]

Record 1 2004-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geochemistry
  • Petrography
  • Metals Mining
DEF

A thermally metamorphosed impure limestone or dolomite.

CONT

Scheelite occurs commonly in an essentiallly stratiform almandine-hedenbergite exoskarn assemblage that metasomatically overprints and replaces earlier, metamorphic calc-silicate hornfels.

OBS

The[metamorphosed] rock has been recrystallised and the bulk of it is in the form of various calcium and/or magnesium-containing silicates.

OBS

Hornfelses are described by prefixing the names of significant minerals or mineral groups, e.g. garnet-hornfels, pyroxene-hornfels, calc-silicate hornfels ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géochimie
  • Pétrographie
  • Mines métalliques

Spanish

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