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Record 1 2006-05-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Erosion and Weathering (Geol.)
  • Petrography
  • Geochemistry
CONT

Plutons commonly are coarse grained, porphyritic and unaltered, but border phases are in some cases locally argillized, greisenized or tourmalinized.

CONT

The world's largest high grade uranium deposit ... contains not only polymetallic, but also some monometallic mineralization. Most of the mineralization occurs in clay-altered rocks at the base of the Athabasca Group ...

PHR

Argillically altered sediment.

PHR

Clay-altered rock

PHR

Argillized rock.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Érosion et corrosion (Géologie)
  • Pétrographie
  • Géochimie
OBS

C'est ici qu'intervient l'altération chimique qui argilifie les minéraux au contact du vide sous-cutané [créé par la desquamation].

PHR

Roche argilisée.

Spanish

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