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SPARRY CALCITE [6 records]

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Record 1 2024-02-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
  • Speleology
DEF

Limestone in which sparite cement is more abundant than the micrite matrix.

CONT

Stalactites from modern and old caves... contain laminae and bulbous masses of micrite intercalated with sparry calcite.

OBS

Sparite cement consists of crystalline, clean, relatively coarse-grained (usually greater than 10 microns) calcite (or aragonite) that either accumulated during deposition or was introduced later as a cement.

OBS

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

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
  • Spéléologie
DEF

Calcite [formée de] cristaux de plus de 10 [microns] formant la matrice des calcaires cristallins.

CONT

[...] une calcite de grande taille (sparite) pourra cristalliser dans les vides laissés libres.

CONT

Les stalactites, dans les cavernes actuelles et anciennes [...] contiennent des lamines et des masses bulbeuses de micrite intercalées avec la calcite sparitique.

OBS

calcite sparitique; calcite spathique : termes en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.

Spanish

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Record 2 2013-07-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
DEF

A limestone, defined by the Folk classification as comprising ooids together with sparry calcite cement(sparite).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
DEF

[...] calcaire formé d'oolithes cimentées par une calcite claire [...]

Spanish

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Record 3 2004-12-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Erosion and Weathering (Geol.)
  • Soil Mechanics (Engineering)
DEF

A planar crack attributed to shrinkage of sediment due to dewatering ...

OBS

It is commonly parallel to the bedding and filled with sparry calcite or mud.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Érosion et corrosion (Géologie)
  • Mécanique des sols
CONT

Les «copeaux» plus ou moins déformés et déplacés correspondraient à la desquamation de la surface desséchée du sédiment (sheetcracks).

Spanish

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Record 4 2001-06-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
  • Geochemistry
DEF

... one of several varieties of discrete and organized carbonate aggregates that serve as the coarser framework grains in most mechanically deposited limestones, as distinguished from sparry calcite and carbonate-mud matrix.

CONT

In carbonate sands ..., grains are produced chemically or biochemically "within" the basin of accumulation. They are "intrabasinal" in origin. To these grains Folk ... has applied the term "allochems."

CONT

Important allochems include: silt-, sand-, and gravel-size intraclasts; ooliths; pellets; lumps; and fossils or fossil fragments.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
  • Géochimie
DEF

Sédiment formé par les précipitations chimiques ou biochimiques d'éléments transportés, dans un bassin de sédimentation.

DEF

[...] éléments figurés [dans un calcaire] : débris microbréchiques (intraclastes), débris coquilliers (bioclastes), gravelles, pelotes (pellets), oolites, coprolites et agrégats (lumps).

Spanish

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Record 5 1998-09-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
  • Geology
DEF

Recrystallized limestone with a grumous texture where patches of coarse sparry calcite irregularly invade shell fragments, ooliths, and matrix without oblitering their features and surround micritic clots or clusters of clots.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
  • Géologie
DEF

[Calcaire] à structure plus ou moins amygdaline, correspondant à des vases calcaires remuées avant leur consolidation définitive.

Spanish

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Record 6 1977-12-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
  • Geology
OBS

Sparry calcite cement consists of clean, coarse grained calcite grains(...) The grains infill pre-existing cavities or pores within a limestone and if these should be large the grains may reach a size well over 1 mm.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
  • Géologie
OBS

Le "sparry cement", ciment spathique, est un ciment de calcite spathique dont les grains n'ont pas plus de 4 [microns]

Spanish

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