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<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:creator>T. P. Thayer</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>1964</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;Podiform&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;chromite&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;deposits&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;occur in alpine peridotite and mafic complexes and fundamentally are tabular, pencil-shaped, or irregular in form. The&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;chromite&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;characteristically is anhedral and commonly shows effects of granulation and magmatic corrosion. Flow-layering, foliation, and lineation are parallel in most&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;chromite&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;deposits&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;and peridotite host rocks, and normally pass through major rock units, including&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;chromite&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;; locally, foliation and lineation may cross layering. Most&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;podiform&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;deposits&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;are oriented with their longer dimensions essentially parallel to layering or foliation in the host peridotite, but some are crosswise. In all&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;podiform&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;deposits&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, whether parallel or crosswise, internal flow structures are, to use Hans Cloos' terminology, harmonious with those in the country rock, except where disturbed by postmagmatic faulting. The relations between&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;podiform&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;and stratiform&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;deposits&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;are analogous to those between metamorphic and sedimentary rocks. Though relict structures formed by crystal settling are preserved in some massive ore, most&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;features&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;in&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;podiform&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;deposits&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;are due to extensive flowage during re-emplacement, under magmatic conditions. As the rules governing sedimentary rocks apply in exploration of stratiform&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;deposits&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, so metamorphic principles apply to&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;podiform&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;deposits&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;. Evidence is presented to show that the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;chromite&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;deposits&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;in the Gule-man-Soridag&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;district&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;Turkey&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, are&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;podiform&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;; and that the Golalan ore body is closely related to nearby gabbroic rocks of normal alpine type. The Soridag&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;deposits&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;are regarded as originally&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;podiform&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;rather than as fault segments of stratiform&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;deposits&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
  <dc:format>application/pdf</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>10.2113/gsecongeo.59.8.1497</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>Society of Economic Geologists</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>Principal features and origin of podiform chro-mite deposits, and some observations on the Guleman-Soridag District, Turkey</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
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