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CHROMITE-OLIVINE CUMULATE [1 record]

Record 1 2003-11-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
CONT

The so-called "net-" or "chain-texture" chromite ores are typically chromite-olivine cumulates, (chromite peridotites or olivine chromitites in lithological terminology), and contain 20 to 50 modal per cent chromite ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
CONT

Ce qu'il est convenu d'appeler les minerais de chromite à texture «réticulée» ou à texture «en chaînes» sont en général des cumulats à chromite-olivine (ou, selon la terminologie lithologique, des péridotites à chromite ou des chromitites à olivine); ils renferment, selon l'analyse modale, de 20 à 50 % de chromite [...]

Spanish

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