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Record 1 2007-10-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tectonics
  • Various Metal Ores
CONT

Meguma terrane is characterized by a series of shallowly plunging, northeast-to east-northeast-trending upright folds which are cut by northwest-striking faults and intruded by Devonian granites ...

CONT

The central part of the Knob Lake Pasin area has been highly deformed by doubly plumging isoclinal folds, with axes trending northwest ...

Key term(s)
  • striking

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tectonique
  • Minerais divers (Mines métalliques)
CONT

Le terrane de Meguma est caractérisé par un ensemble de plis droits faiblement inclinés, de direction nord-est à est-nord-est, qui sont traversés par des failles de direction nord-ouest et recoupés par des granites dévoniens [...]

CONT

La région de Chibougamau est située à l'extrêmité est de la ceinture de roches vertes Matagami-Chibougamau [...] Cette ceinture d'orientation E-W [...] fait partie de la ceinture d'Abitibi [...]

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