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Record 1 1998-10-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
DEF

A name describing the dioritic rocks connected with a series of ore deposits in the Austrian Province of the Banat.

OBS

Accurate microscopical study has shown them to be of such varying mineralogy, that the name has now slight definite significance. The rocks are largely quartz diorites.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
DEF

Ancien terme désignant une diorite quartzique à feldspath alcalin rencontrée en Hongrie dans la province de Banat.

OBS

[...] dans les roches monzonitiques et dioritiques («banatites») du Crétacé supérieur et Tertiaire inférieur des Balkans, ainsi que dans les vulcanites du même cycle, roches auxquelles les gisements de cuivre se rattachent, [la] teneur géochimique de ces roches en cuivre [est] supérieure à la normale, et en plomb inférieure [...]

Spanish

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