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Article: Hypogene & supergene.(A Word To The Wise)
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- Rocks & Minerals
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- November 1, 2003
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Many mineral deposits that are rich in well crystallized specimens form from geologic waters. In the present installment of this column, we begin our look at several terms that describe minerals formed from aqueous solutions. The article in this issue on fluorites from the Blanchard mine group (pages 380-89) describes their formation as hypogene. The term hypogene is used in the geological literature ineveral different ways: to describe geologic processes, and their resultant features, occurring within and below the earth's crust; to describe a mineral deposit formed from aqueous solutions that originated at depths below the deposit and ascended through the crust; and to ...
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