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CARBONATE FACIES [1 record]

Record 1 2006-06-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
  • Geochemistry
  • Iron and Manganese Mining
CONT

Carbonate facies. This commonly consists of interbanded chert and siderite in about equal proportions. It may grade through magnetite-siderite-quartz rock into the oxide facies, or, by the addition of pyrite, into the sulphide facies.

CONT

Iron oxide-rich facies with a minimum of associated carbonate or silicate facies are selected for ore.

PHR

Manganese carbonate facies.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
  • Géochimie
  • Mines de fer et de manganèse
CONT

Dans le district d'Iron River (Michigan), la superposition des faciès minéralogiques rappelle celle de Lorraine, en ce sens qu'elle traduit un accroissement de la tendance oxydante; en partant de la base se succèdent : le faciès sulfuré, le faciès carbonaté, et un faciès silicaté.

CONT

Diagramme montrant les principaux types de formations ferrifères résultant d'une précipitation chimique; on donne aussi le faciès de sédimentation [...] Faciès oxyde. Faciès silicate. Faciès carbonate. Faciès sulfure.

PHR

Faciès carbonaté manganésifère.

Spanish

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