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METALLIFEROUS MUD [1 record]

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Record 1 2012-05-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Metals Mining
  • Economic Geology
CONT

Another type of deep-sea mineral deposit - the metalliferous muds and associated brines of the Red Sea ...

CONT

In the back-arc regions behind island arcs a small ocean basin ... may be present ... Black metalliferous mud deposits and iron-manganese deposits of volcanic affiliation are further possibilities. ... the embryonic North Atlantic of Jurassic-Cretaceous times probably possessed the ideal features for the formation of metalliferous muds: topographic depressions with concentrated thermal and exhalative activity in a narrow central zone within a small oceanic basin....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mines métalliques
  • Géologie économique
CONT

Un autre type de gisement minier sous-marin - les boues métallifères et les saumures [...] au fond de la Mer Rouge [...]

OBS

boue métallifère : généralement usité au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • boues métallifères

Spanish

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