wall rock in English

noun
1
the rock adjacent to or enclosing a vein, hydrothermal ore deposit, fault, or other geological feature.
At the eastern end of town, the fault cuts through outcrops near the I-wu river and is also represented by a major gouge zone and thick breccia in the adjacent wall rock .

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1. Wall rock adjacent to the veins contains pyrrhotite, pyrite, and gold.

2. Wall-rock alteration surrounding the deposit includes pyritization, chloritization, sericitization, and silicification.

3. The most common types of hydrothermal wall-rock alteration are phyllic alteration (sericitization), silicification, carbonatization, and sulfidization.

4. 13 Burnt rock is come into being coal bed self-ignite and bring wall rock metamorphose and has special engineering geological characteristics.

5. Mineralization at Main Hill occurs in quartz breccias with sulfide matrices and in altered wall rock adjacent to quartz–biotite–amphibole ± clinopyroxene veins.

6. Mineralization at Zakanaka is characterized by a broad wall rock alteration halo of biotite–amphibole, and zoned quartz–calc silicate veins proximal to ore.

7. From which, it is concluded that the Aegirine is a product of post-magmatic fluids reaction with wall rock dolomites, while the Riebeckite is forming in diagenesis to metamorphism.

8. ‘Magmas Concentrate metals, and magma fluids traveling into the surrounding wall rock plant the seeds for mineral growth.’ ‘These species depend upon a network of blood vessels to Concentrate oxygen in their swim bladder.’

9. The highest grade orebody in the Dome mine is a steeply dipping 500 m long, 550 m high, and 3.5 m wide banded quartz-fuchsite vein (QFV) accompanied by subsidiary veins in the adjacent wall rock.