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- noun Plural form of
metasediment .
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The south-western group consists of metasediments, charnokites and scapolite-bearing calc-granulites, while the highland group comprises khondalites of metamorphosed sediments and charnokites.
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These sediments accumulated in a basin depository with one billion year-old metasediments of the Malmesbury, Kango, Kaaimans, and Gamtoos Groups lying beneath.
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These sediments accumulated in a basin depository underlain by one billion-year-old metasediments of the Malmesbury, Kango, Kaaimans, and Gamtoos Groups.
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Reconnaissance mapping and in 2010 reconfirmed historic Cu +/Au occurrences hosted in sheared Archean metasediments along both fault zones.
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The three properties lie on a structural corridor located along a belt of Aphebian metasediments in the subAthabasca basement.
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The Contact Zone consists of a steeply dipping mineralized fault contact between the north-south trending metasediments and mafic volcanic rocks, and two other parallel mineralized zones.
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The Nyngan deposit is hosted within the lateritic zone of the Gilgai Intrusion, one of several Alaskan-type mafic and ultramafic bodies which intrude Cambrian-Ordovician metasediments collectively called the Girilambone Group.
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Locally, geology consists of felsic intrusives on the western part, metavolcanics in the southwestern corner with the metasediments dominating the central and eastern part.
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The metasediments include greywacke, siltstones, sericitic and chlorite schist, and graphite schist.
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The rocks in these parcels are principally the Bisbee Group sediments and metasediments that have been highly productive in both the Tombstone Mining District and in the Warren (Bisbee) Mining District, Arizona.
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