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LITHOPHILIC [2 records]

Record 1 2015-04-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecology (General)
  • Ecosystems
DEF

Living on or forming a film over rock; boring in calcareous formations.

CONT

Attached stream algae can be referred to as rheophilic, a category which would include lithophilic algae - those forms ... which characteristically attach themselves to rocks.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écologie (Généralités)
  • Écosystèmes
DEF

[Se dit d'une biocénose] sur les cailloux, pierres et autres substrats solides [...]

CONT

Les biocoenoses psammorhéophiles, qui composent la majeure partie de la biomasse du fond des fleuves de plaines (en Russie), sont remplacées par des biocoenoses pélorhéophiles tandis que les biocoenoses lithorhéophiles ou argillorhéophiles sont réduites.

Spanish

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Record 2 1998-11-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geochemistry
DEF

Said of an element that is concentrated in the silicate rather than in the metal or sulphide phases of meteorites.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géochimie
DEF

Se dit d'un élément chimique qui présente des affinités avec la lithosphère dans laquelle il a tendance à se concentrer.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Geoquímica
CONT

Los elementos concentrados en el manto son, por contra, litofílicos, o con afinidad por las rocas: silicio, magnesio, aluminio y calcio.

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