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ROCHE CARBONIFERE [2 records]

Record 1 1992-05-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
  • Chronology
CONT

The country rocks are carbonates and argillaceous sediments of the early and middle Palaeozoic overlain by Carboniferous rocks with coals....

CONT

Gold fields have been worked in Queensland within areas where Carboniferous rocks are said to prevail.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
  • Chronologie
OBS

Par analogie avec "gîte du Carbonifère" : PLGEO, 1972, vol. 1, p. 41.

Spanish

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Record 2 1985-11-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mineralogy
OBS

carboniferous [:] producing or containing carbon or coal.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minéralogie
CONT

Les bassins pauvres en carbonate (granite, silice, roches métamorphiques, roches acides, gneiss) amènent des eaux de surface «douces» à faible pouvoir tampon. Les bassins riches en carbonate (calcite, aragonite, roches calciféreuses et carboniféreuses ...) amènent des eaux «dures» et un fort pouvoir tampon.

OBS

carbonifère [:] Qui contient du charbon.

Spanish

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