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- adjective Of or pertaining to
metallogeny - adjective geology Occurring in an
ore as a nativemetal rather than as a compound such assilicate ,carbonate etc
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Examples
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Virginia City, and many other deposits through the Great Basin area of the southwestern United States and Mexico have group characteristics which have led geologists to refer to this area as a "metallogenic" or
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Petroleum as well as metallogenic provinces exist, and the world's coal deposits are strikingly concentrated in the temperate belt of the Northern Hemisphere.
Limits to Exploitation of Nonrenewable Resources (historical) Earl Cook 2007
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A number of joint projects had been undertaken, among them the tectonic, metallogenic and geochemical mapping of Southern
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Other features of distribution of minerals associated with igneous rocks are indicated by their grouping in metallogenic provinces and epochs
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Lake Superior copper, silver, gold ores, occurrence in a metallogenic province, 308
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Sierra Nevadas, for nearly the entire length of California, likewise constitute a metallogenic province.
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This applies not only to individual deposits, but to certain groups of deposits which have common characteristics, and which constitute a metallogenic province; also to groups of the same geologic age, which indicate a metallogenic epoch (pp. 308-309).
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Great Basin, Nevada, covering of mineral deposits by lavas, 311-312 gold-silver ores, occurrence in a metallogenic province, 308 tungsten ores, 185
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All tenements are located in North Kivu Province of the east-central Democratic Republic of the Congo and lie within in one of the world's principal gold and tin metallogenic provinces.
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The Lufilian foreland and Lufilian arc are hosted by the Katangan Sequence and together form one of the largest metallogenic districts in the world.
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