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Record 1 1996-11-21

English

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

Europe has smaller and less well-defined [metallogenic] provinces than North or South America; the German lead provinces, the English tin province, and the Scandinavian nickel province are good examples.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géologie économique
  • Mines d'étain
CONT

D'autres provinces métallogéniques sont en liaison sans doute avec des faits pétrographiques plus subtils et n'ont pas de rapport apparent avec la profondeur de l'érosion. Ainsi le long des chaînes est-asiatiques, on peut admettre l'existence d'une province, surtout stannifère, malayo-indonésienne (qui fournissait encore récemment 58 % de l'étain mondial) [...]

CONT

La Grande-Bretagne a, en Cornouailles, une province stannifère, avec de très beaux exemples de zonalité, cuivre-plomb-zinc [...]

Key term(s)
  • province à étain

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