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INTERSTRATIFICATION [2 records]

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Record 1 2016-02-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
  • Various Metal Ores
DEF

The state or condition of being interstratified or occurring between strata of a different character.

CONT

The conformable interlayering of discrete units of gold-rich sulphide-iron-formation with barren silicate-iron-formation and clastic sedimentary rocks ... suggest that both gold and sulphur were primary components of the deposits.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
  • Minerais divers (Mines métalliques)
DEF

Intercalation, au sein d'une série sédimentaire, de niveaux de nature différente.

CONT

L'interstratification concordante d'unités distinctes de faciès sulfurés de formation de fer riches en or avec des faciès silicatés de formation, de fer et de roches sédimentaires clastiques stériles [...] indiquent que l'or et le soufre étaient des composants primaires des dépôts.

PHR

Interstratification le long de la ligne séparant les faciès.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Petrografía
  • Minerales varios (Minas metálicas)
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Record 2 2010-11-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
  • Soil Science
DEF

A bed, typically thin, of one kind of rock material occurring between or alternating with beds of another kind.

OBS

interbed: term used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
  • Science du sol
DEF

Lit de roche présent [...] au sein d'une séquence [de plusieurs strates].

CONT

[On observe] des couches interstratifiées de sable fin, de silt et d'argile.

OBS

interstrate : terme en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.

Spanish

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