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Record 1 2011-02-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tectonics
  • Biogeography
DEF

Pertaining to the mountains of western North America.

CONT

Cordilleran skarns have developed preferentially in the lowest thick limestone bed of an Upper Proterozoic to Carboniferous cratonal or pericratonic sedimentary sequence.

PHR

Cordilleran region.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tectonique
  • Biogéographie
CONT

Les skarns de la Cordillère se sont formés de préférence dans une épaisse couche de calcaire occupant la position la plus basse d'une séquence sédimentaire cratonique ou péricratonique du Protérozoïque supérieur-Carbonifère.

OBS

cordillérien : Voir la rubrique «arnica» dans la source MAFLO - Flore laurentienne, Frère Marie-Victorin, 1964.

OBS

Région de la Cordillère.

Spanish

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