Giant Metallic Deposits : Future Sources of Industrial Metals /
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
2010.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. 2010. |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Civilization based on metals
- Data on metallic deposits and magnitude categories: the giant and world class deposits
- From trace metals to giant deposits
- Geological divisions that contain ore giants: introduction and the role of mantle
- Oceans and young island arc systems
- Andean-type convergent continental margins (upper volcanic-sedimentary level)
- Cordilleran granitoids in convergent continental margins (lower, plutonic levels)
- Intracratonic (intraplate) orogens granites hydrothermal deposits
- Volcano-sedimentary orogens
- Precambrian greenstone-granite terrains
- Proterozoic-style intracratonic orogens and basins: extension, sedimentation, magmatism
- Rifts, paleorifts, rifted margins, anorogenic and alkaline magmatism
- Sedimentary associations and regolith
- Higher-grade metamorphic associations
- Giant deposits in geological context
- Giant deposits: industry, economics, politics
- Finding or acquiring giant deposits
- Epilogue
- References
- Index of mineral deposits
- Appendix: Database of significant metal accumulations.