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PENECONTEMPORANEOUS [1 record]

Record 1 2004-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chronology
  • Geology
DEF

Formed or existing at almost the same time.

CONT

Hornblende-biotite-bearing plutons penecontemporaneous with volcanism ...

CONT

Ore deposition was penecontemporaneous with associated intrusive rocks: mid-Cretaceous to Eocene in the North American Cordillera ...

CONT

Age of skarn mineralization is mainly ... penecontemporaneous with the associated intrusion.

OBS

e.g. said of a structure or mineral that was formed immediately after deposition of a sediment but before its consolidation into rock.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chronologie
  • Géologie
CONT

[...] minéralisation péné-contemporaine de la sédimentation.

CONT

Le dépôt de la minéralisation a été quasi contemporain de la cristallisation des roches intrusives auxquelles les gîtes sont associés. Ainsi, la minéralisation remonte au Crétacé moyen-Eocène pour ce qui est des skarns de la Cordillère nord-américaine [...]

CONT

En majeure partie, les minéralisations des skarns [...] sont pénécontemporaines de l'intrusion associée.

Spanish

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