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terrane
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terrane [tə′rān]
(geology)
A rock formation, a cluster of rock formations, or the general area of outcrops.


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The Aldebaran project is in a remote corner of the vast, largely unexplored Amazon basin, and is the site of a large, well-preserved epithermal system similar to those found in much younger volcanic terranes throughout the world.
1992, Giant granulite terranes of northeastern Superior Province: the Ashuanipi complex and Minto block: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v.
The 7,648 km2 West Falcon Gobi Property includes Silurian-Devonian age island-arc geological terranes prospective for porphyry copper-gold deposits and Permian age sedimentary basins prospective for metallurgical and high-quality thermal coal deposits.
 
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