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ROCHE MAFIQUE TEXTURE CUMULUS [1 record]

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Record 1 2005-05-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
CONT

The ideal ophiolite succession comprises, from the top downwards, marine sediments, pillowed basaltic lavas, sheeted diabase dykes, noncumulate and cumulate mafic rocks, ultramafic cumulates and ultramafic tectonites.

OBS

mafic: Of or relating to a group of minerals characterized by magnesium and iron and usually by their dark color.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
OBS

mafique : Se dit d'une roche ou d'un minéral riche en fer et en magnésium.

Spanish

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