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STRUCTURE BRECHOIDE [2 records]

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Record 1 2011-02-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
DEF

Pertaining to pisolite or to the characteristic texture of such a rock.

CONT

Low-level peneplain-type bauxites ... are distinguished by the development of pisolitic textures and are often boehmitic in composition.

OBS

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

PHR

Pisolitic sediment.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
DEF

Qui contient des pisolites.

CONT

Si l’agrégat est formé de nodules plus ou moins sphériques, il va du «pisolitique» à l’«oolitique», en fonction de la diminution de la taille des nodules [...]

CONT

Le minerai d’aluminium est la bauxite, roche cohérente assez dure et de structure variée : amorphe, granuleuse, pisolithique ou même bréchoïde [...]

OBS

pisolitique; pisolithique : termes en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.

PHR

Concrétion, sédiment pisolitique.

Spanish

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Record 2 2002-09-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
OBS

See records "brecciated structure" and "mylonitic structure" in the same field.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
CONT

Une [...] structure cataclastique a l'aspect d’une brèche confuse, formée de petits nodules de roche peu écrasée, englobés de façon désordonnée dans une mésostase finement broyée. C'est la «structure mylonitique bréchoïde».

Spanish

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