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CALCAREOUS SHALE [1 record]

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Record 1 2001-04-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
  • Geochemistry
CONT

Limestones usually contain at least some detrital sandy or clayey debris. As these components increase, limestones grade into calcareous shales, sandstones and mudstones.

CONT

Copper Canyon, Nevada.- At this deposit, skarn has replaced calcareous shale or argillite beds just above the Golconda Thrust ... producing a flat-lying tabular zone of andradite-rich rock in which most of the mineralization occurred.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
  • Géochimie
CONT

Parmi les résultats obtenus [...], mentionnons : [...] la transformation d'un schiste calcareux en schiste augitique et micacé; [...]

OBS

calcareux : Qui est constitué de carbonate de calcium ou qui en contient.

Spanish

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