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PYROCLASTIC ROCK [1 record]

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Record 1 2011-02-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
  • Vulcanology and Seismology
DEF

Any rock consisting of unreworked solid material of whatever size explosively or aerially ejected from a volcanic vent.

CONT

The famous Kiruna iron ores occur above altered acidic pyroclastics which are veined with magnetite.

CONT

Crater facies rocks consist of resedimented volcaniclastic and pyroclastic rocks ...

OBS

As a noun, pyroclastic is plural.

OBS

pyroclastic rock: term used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

Key term(s)
  • pyroclastic

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
  • Volcanologie et sismologie
DEF

Roche formée de projections volcaniques.

CONT

Les roches du faciès de cratère sont des pyroclastites et des volcanoclastites resédimentées.

OBS

roche pyroclastique; pyroclastite : termes en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.

Spanish

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