"Metallographic" Quotes from Famous Books
... Virginia City, and many other deposits through the Great Basin area of the southwestern United States and Mexico have group characteristics which have led geologists to refer to this area as a "metallogenic" or "metallographic" province. The gold-silver ores on the west slope of the Sierra Nevadas, for nearly the entire length of California, likewise constitute a metallogenic province. The Lake Superior copper ores on the south shore of Lake Superior, ... — The Economic Aspect of Geology • C. K. Leith |