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Record 1 2003-12-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
CONT

All the rocks and their contained copper minerals have suffered low to high grade greenschist facies metamorphism and many of the so-called shales are biotite-schists.

OBS

biotite: [This mineral] forms a constituent of crystalline rocks (either as an original crystal in igneous rocks of all kinds or a product of metamorphic origin in gneisses and schists) ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
OBS

biotite : [...] mica le plus répandu, constituant essentiel des granites, des syénites et des diorites; également présent dans les gneiss, les schistes et dans certaines roches métamorphiques ou éruptives.

Spanish

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