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ANHYDRITIC DOLOMITE [3 records]

Record 1 2013-03-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Physical Geography (General)
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
CONT

Across Saskatchewan(Porter and Fuller, 1964) the lower "Interlake" consists of cryptocrystalline and finely crystalline dolomite with shaly, silty anhydritic layers, some with salt casts.

OBS

interlacustrine: [adj.] situated between lakes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géographie physique (Généralités)
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
DEF

Région située entre des lacs.

CONT

Interlac ontarien (entre les lacs Huron, Érié et Ontario). Interlac manitobain (entre les lacs Winnipeg, Manitoba et Winnipegosis).

Spanish

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Record 2 2010-12-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mineralogy
OBS

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

PHR

Anhydritic dolomite.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minéralogie
OBS

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

PHR

Dolomie à anhydrite.

Spanish

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Record 3 2010-12-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
CONT

The producing reservoirs consist of phylloid-algal buildups in the Ismay zone flanked by bryozoan mounds and mound flank debris. These porous mounds, capped by impermeable anhydritic dolomite, produce primarily from porous phylloid-algal limestones, some of which have been dolomitized.... anhydritic dolomite... has abundant microporosity but very little permeability.

CONT

The Late Miocene oil-producing Nestos-Prinos basin is located between Thassos island and the mainland. ... The basin is filled with Late Miocene-Pliocene sediments, including ubiquitously repeated evaporite layers of rock salt and anhydrite-dolomite which alternate with sandstones, conglomerates, black shales, and uraniferous coal measures ...

OBS

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

Key term(s)
  • anhydrite dolomite

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
OBS

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

Spanish

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