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EARLY CRYSTALLIZATION [5 records]

Record 1 2012-10-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mineralogy
CONT

Gravity fractionation occurs during the early stages of magmatic crystallization when the magma is still dominantly liquid and crystals can sink through it to accumulate at the base of the magma chamber or interlayered with other early-formed minerals.

OBS

As opposed to "late magmatic mineral".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minéralogie
OBS

Lorsque les cristaux sont bien individualisés, le minéral est dit automorphe; dans le cas contraire (pas de forme propre), [il] est dit xénomorphe. Le premier cas correspond aux minéraux qui cristallisent précocement, ils peuvent alors développer leurs formes propres, le second aux minéraux plus tardifs qui remplissent les espaces laissés libres par les premiers.

Spanish

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Record 2 2011-12-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mineralogy
CONT

The plagioclase in oxide gabbro bodies is euhedral to subhedral, whereas the augite and magnetite are subhedral to anhedral. This implies relatively early crystallization of plagioclase, in contrast to its late crystallization in the ultramafic bodies.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minéralogie

Spanish

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Record 3 2008-07-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mineralogy
CONT

Low-pressure crystallization : At 1 atm [atmosphere], the first phase to crystallize is Cr-rich spinel, immediately followed by olivine. Olivine and Cr-rich spinel cocrystallize until about 25 weight percent(about 20 volume %) olivine is formed, then plagioclase and pigeonite join the crystallizing assemblage. Experimental results thus suggest that low-pressure crystallization will lead to early crystallization of about 20 volume % of olivine phenocrysts before crystallization of a pyroxene + plagioclase + olivine groundmass.

OBS

low-pressure crystallization: term used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

Key term(s)
  • cristallisation at low pressure

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minéralogie
CONT

La cristallisation à faible pression est contrôlée par l'exsolution de l'eau dans la phase gazeuse.

OBS

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

Spanish

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Record 4 2005-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mineralogy
  • Metals Mining
DEF

... dispersed crystallization of early formed crystals of ore minerals in deep seated magmas and to dispersed formations of ore minerals in a more general sense.

CONT

Disseminated and Stockwork Deposits Associated with Plutonic Intrusives. ... The ore minerals in these deposits are scattered through the host rock either as what is called disseminated mineralization, which can be likened to the distribution of seeds through raspberry jam, or they are ... restricted to quartz veinlets which form ... a stockwork ...

CONT

Stockwork mineralization is more important than disseminated mineralization and the orebodies are associated with simple, multiple or composite intrusions or with dykes of breccia pipes.

CONT

The ore minerals occur in masses, lenses, veinlets, and disseminations with or without associated gangue minerals.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minéralogie
  • Mines métalliques
CONT

Disséminations. Dans certains cas la minéralisation est disséminée à faible teneur dans de grands volumes de roche. [...] Un [...] modèle de minéralisation disséminée est fourni par les stockwerks, réseaux de veines interconnectées contenant le minerai.

CONT

La minéralisation disséminée consiste en gouttelettes, schlierens et fins filonnets de sulfures dispersés dans les unités de gabbro-dolérite taxitique et de gabbro-dolérite de contact de la partie inférieure des intrusions; cette minéralisation disséminée forme des corps minéralisés concordants en forme de nappe dont l'épaisseur dépasse parfois 40 m.

CONT

La minéralisation peut être diffuse dans la roche primitive, avec des limites estompées : la concentration est faible, mais suffisante pour être exploitable.

CONT

Relations des corps minéralisés avec les roches encaissantes.- [...] La minéralisation peut y être disséminée dans la roche sous forme de «mouches» (gisement disséminé); [...]

Spanish

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Record 5 2001-06-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geochemistry
  • Geophysics
DEF

Referring to conditions of pressure, temperature, and composition under which two or more solid phases crystallize at the same time, with no resorption, from a single liquid over a finite range of decreasing temperature.

CONT

If the growth rate for plagioclase were much greater, this mineral could crystallize almost completely before the pyroxene substantially developed. Such a phenomenon could not develop under equilibrium conditions where cotectic(simultaneous) crystallization of both phases would occur at a very early stage.... The observation that [the ophitic] texture is normally absent in coarser gabbros of the same composition that have cooled very slowly supports this hypothesis, as does the fact that it is pyroxene rather than plagioclase that is generally observed to have separated prior to cotectic precipitation during fractional crystallization of differentiated tholeiitic sills...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géochimie
  • Géophysique
PHR

Courbe cotectique, cristallisation cotectique, surface cotectique.

Spanish

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