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CALC-FLINTA [1 record]

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Record 1 2004-07-12

English

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

A very fine-grained metamorphic rock of flinty aspect derived from a calcareous mudstone.

OBS

The new minerals are in part due to pneumatolytic processes and include feldspars and lime-silicate minerals, the latter being less abundant than in a calc-silicate hornfels.

OBS

Compare with "calc-silicate hornfels."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
  • Géologie
  • Mines métalliques

Spanish

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