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Record 1 2012-02-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Various Metal Ores
  • Thermal Springs - Uses
DEF

An ore which occurs as beds or layers.

CONT

The bedded ore facies is a compositionally layered apron of hydrothermal products, which may or may not be interlayered with host rock lithologies, that is usually asymmetrically distributed around the vent complex.

CONT

The chief bedded ores in Great Britain are the iron ores of the Jurassic. Another bedded ore is that of manganese formed in the Cambrian and Ordovician rocks of North Wales.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minerais divers (Mines métalliques)
  • Thermalisme
CONT

Le faciès de minerai stratifié est une nappe de produits hydrothermaux rubanés (alternance de couches de composition distincte), pouvant être ou non interstratifiée avec les lithologies hôtes, qui est habituellement répartie asymétriquement autour du complexe de griffons.

Spanish

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