Meanings
nounoreforming (uncountable)
- uncountablegeographyThe process of forming an ore.
Accepting that hydrothermal ores may form specifically from anomalously metal-rich batches of fluid implies geochemically specialized source regions and an episodicity and potentially short duration of oreforming events that may be controlled by changes in hydrology.
2009 February 6, Jamie J. Wilkinson et al., “Anomalously Metal-Rich Fluids Form Hydrothermal Ore Deposits”, in Science, volume 323, number 5915, →DOI, pages 764–767
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