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Record 1 2001-03-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geochemistry
  • Metals Mining
DEF

A mineral-bearing solution rising through fissures from magmatic sources in the Earth's interior.

CONT

... very competent rocks fractured easily to produce channelways for uprising solutions which, on reaching the overlying limestones, gave rise to the mineralization.

Key term(s)
  • up-flowing solution

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géochimie
  • Mines métalliques
DEF

Solution minéralisée émanant des profondeurs de la Terre et dont la migration s'effectue vers le haut, à la faveur de fissures.

CONT

Aussi paraît-il logique d'imaginer une ouverture progressive, avec dépôt en couches successives au fur et à mesure de l'ouverture. Ainsi s'expliqueraient beaucoup de remplissages zonés et, avec des pulsations dues au renouvellement de la solution ascendante, les récurrences et, exceptionnellement, les réjuvénations [...]

CONT

[...] la comparaison des données minéralogiques, structurales et géochimiques, indique une origine à partir de solutions ascendantes, riches en CO2, lessivant la magnésite des roches ultrabasiques et déposant le minerai dans des fractures ouvertes près de la surface.

Spanish

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