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BARREN SEDIMENT [1 record]

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Record 1 1998-03-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Metals Mining
CONT

The sulphide minerals show a consistent zonal pattern with respect to the strandline from barren near-shore sediments to chalcocite in shallow water, to bornite with carrollite and chalcopyrite, then chalcopyrite and finally pyrite ... in the deeper parts of marine lagoons and basins.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mines métalliques
CONT

Des oscillations millénaires des côtes ont provoqué des dépérissements périodiques de la forêt coïncidant avec l'apport, par les cours d'eau, de vase argilo-sableuse recouvrant les débris végétaux. D'où une succession de couches de charbon, d'épaisseur généralement faible, séparées par des sédiments stériles.

Spanish

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