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BASEMENT ROCK [1 record]

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Record 1 2006-06-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
  • Tectonics
DEF

The underlying or older rock mass.

CONT

The BIF ... in some places are separated from the basement rocks by only a metre or so of quartzite, grit and shale and in some parts ... they rest directly on the basement rocks.

OBS

In Ontario's Elliot Lake camp, the favorable ore-bearing sedimentary rock formations lie on top of a granite basement; the hunt for ore, therefore, is restricted to the overlying rocks in this particular case.

OBS

Not to be confused with "bedrock."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
  • Tectonique

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Petrografía
  • Tectónica
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