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CARBONATE HOST ROCK [1 record]

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Record 1 2001-04-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geochemistry
  • Petrography
CONT

Mineralogically, gangue minerals can be the dominant constituents as in auriferous quartz veins. Quartz and calcite are the commonest, with quartz being dominant when the host rocks are silicates and calcite with carbonate host rocks.

CONT

... flats ... are horizontal or subhorizontal bodies of ore which commonly branch out from veins and lie in carbonate host rocks beneath an impervious cover ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géochimie
  • Pétrographie
CONT

[...] les gisements de fluorite dans les roches sédimentaires [...] sont définis par trois métallotectes essentiels : roche-support carbonatée; tectonique cassante [...]; karsts.

OBS

Voir les fiches «roche hôte» et «roche carbonatée».

Spanish

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