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Record 1 2005-11-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
DEF

Term applied to elongate or belt-like areas within Precambrian shields that are characterized by abundant greenstone.

CONT

The Eastern Goldfields Province of Western Australia is a typical Archaean region having a considerable development of greenstone belts ...

CONT

Volcano-plutonic terranes ... are represented by the abundant Precambrian greenstone belts of the Canadian Shield ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
CONT

Les ceintures de roches vertes primitives abritent trois grands types de gisements. Premièrement des sulfures de nickel et de cuivre [...] Deuxièmement [des] sédiments riches en fer. Le troisième type de gisement [...] est constitué de sédiments riches en or [...]

CONT

Ceintures de roches vertes aurifères.

PHR

Ceinture de roches vertes de l'Archéen, du Protérozoïque.

Spanish

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