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INDEX
blackband ironstones
diagenesis 5:102
ferruginization process 5:103, 5:104f
general description 5:99
occurrence 5:34
photomicrograph 5:99f
sedimentation depth 5:100f
Blackett,Paul3:194
Black Forest, Germany 2:126f9 2:75, 2:81f
Black Hills, South Dakota, United States
4:21
Black Sea
Alps 2:125
anoxic environments 4:495, 4:496f
Biblical geology 1:254
calcareous algae 2:431
as European border 3:648-649
Holocene 2:151-152
oceanic crust 3:650
erogenic events 4:471
Trans-European Suture Zone (TESZ)
3:648
black shales
anoxic environments 4:193, 4:496-497
bedded cherts 5:54
fossils 4:497, 4:498f
Gondwana 3:129
large igneous provinces (LIPs) 3:321f
North Africa 1:21, l:22f
North American continental interior
4:28, 4:29f
Phosphoria Formation, United States
4:500
Silurian 4:193
black smokers
chlorinity 5:37It
East Pacific Rise 5:366f, 5:388, 5:388f
ecology 3:105
growth stages 5:392f, 5:393f
mineral deposits 3:491, 3:628, 5:388
occurrence 3:115, 5:365
structure 5:39Of
Black Warrior Basin 4:61, 4:62f, 4:67
Blackwelder, Eliot 5:542-543
Blake Outer Ridge 4:104-105, 4:93, 4:93f
Blake Plateau 4:101f, 4:103, 4:105, 4:63,
4:93, 4:93f, 4:96f, 4:98-100
Blake Ridge 4:106f
blastomylonite 3:388t
blended whiskies 3:82
block lava 3:326, 5:567-569, 5:571f
blossite (Cu 2 (V 2 O 7 )) 3:589t
Blountian stage 4:75f
Blue Mountains, United States 4:53,
4:55-56, 4:72
Blue Ridge Mountains, United States
3:157/",4:12,4:76/"
blueschist facies
composition 3:404
definition 3:388t
mineral assemblages 3:397f, 3:398f,
3:399f, 3:400f
pressure-temperature conditions 3:403f
regional metamorphism 3:396/", 4:409f,
4:409-410
subduction zones 3:404f
Tasman Orogenic Belt l:246f
temperature-depth diagram 3:412f
volatile components 3:407f
Boborema Plateau, Brazil 1:309
Bode's law 5:221
body waves 5:333
boggsite 3:593t
Bohemia 4:178-179, 4:193, 4:202f
Bohemian Massif
Mps2:126f
Anisian-Ladnian/Muschelkalk
palaeogeography 2:11 Of
Aptian-Albian palaeogeography 2:116f
Bajocian-Bathonian palaeogeography
2:112f
Berriasian-Valanginian palaeogeography
2:115 f
Cretaceous 2:113
dykes 2:117
Eocene 2:120-124
Jurassic 2:106f, 2:113, 2:114f
Kimmeridgian-Tithonian
palaeogeography 2:114-f
Oligocene 2:121f, 2:122f
Palaeocene 2:117
Permian 2:107f
Permo-Carboniferous magmatism 2:96f
Rhaetian-Hettangian palaeogeography
2:lllf
f
Scythian-Bundsandstein
palaeogeography 2:109 f
Senonian-Danian palaeogeography
2:11 8 f
ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rocks
5:535-536, 5:536/", 5:538, 5:539
Variscides Orogeny 2:75, 2:78, 2:80
volcanic centres 2:120
bokite((Al,Fe) 1 . 4 (V,Fe) 8 O 2 o-74H 2 O)
3:589t
Bokkeveld Group 3:129, 3:137f
bolide impact craters 3:363;, 3:383, 4:95,
4:98f
Bolivia 4:208f
Bolivian orocline 1:126
Bol'shezemel'skaya Zone 2:52, 2:52f, 2:53f,
2:54f
Bolsovian subdivision 4:202f
Boltwood, Bernard 3:186
bombs 4:387t, 4:390;, 5:572t
Bonaparte Basin 3:129, 3:139
Bonarelli Event 4:497-499
Bona vista platform 4:100, 4:96 f
boninites 1:2-3
Book Cliffs, Utah, United States 4:575,
4:576f
book gills 2:277
book lice 2:300;
bookshelf faulting 5:396, 5:398, S:404f
boracite (Mg3B7O13Cl) 3:512*, 3:S12f
borax anhydrous (B2O3) 3:519t
borax decahydrate (Na2B4O7-10H2O)
3:519;
borax (Na2B4O7-10H2O) 3:510,
3:511-512, 3:512^ 3:513;, 3:514
borax pentahydrate (Na2B4O7-5H2O)
3:519;
Borborema Plateau, Brazil 1:3 09f, 1:312f
Borborema strike-slip system 1:307f,
l:315f, 1:323
Borch, Ole 2:226-227
Boreal Basin 4:461
Boreosphenida 2:528f
Borneo 4:209, 5:446-447
Bornetella 2:433
Bornholm Island 2:98
bornite (Cu5FeS4) 3:582f, 3:585t, 3:630;,
5:394;
boron (B)
borates
Argentine borate deposits 3:513;
chemistry 3:514
commercial borate minerals 3:512;
commercial refined borate products
3:519;
definition 3:511
depositional environment
formation processes 3:516, 3:516f
magmatic sources 3:517
marine evaporites 3:517
non-marine basins 3:517
occurrences 3:515
playa lakes 3:516f, 3:516-517
exploration techniquew 3:518
geological environment 3:511, 3:512f
global distribution 3:51 If
historical background 3:510
life estimates 3:521;
mineralogy 3:511, 3:512;
mining operations 3:519
origins 3:512f
processing techniques 3:519
reserve deposits 3:521;
Turkish borate deposits 3:513;
uses 3:511, 3:520, 3:520f
world production rates 3:52If
boric acid (H 3 BO 3 ) 3:519;, 3:519-520
hydrothermal fluids 3:629;
mineral classification systems 3:501;,
3:502;
oceanic manganese nodular deposits
5:114;
soil concentrations 2:22;
toxicity 2:22;
Boron mining district, United States
See ore bodies, borates
Boscovich, R. 1:98
Bosumtwi Crater 5:445f
Bos well, Percy 3:188
Bothnian Basin 2:40, 2:149-150
Bothriocidaris 2:352-353, 2:353f
Bothriolepis 2:466
Botoman stage 4:167f
Botswana 3:7;
Boue, Ami 2:183, 3:178
Bouguer gravity anomaly 1:1 OOf, 1:105f,
2:92-94, 2:93f, 4:67, 4:68f
Bouma sequence 4:600, 4:601f
Boundary Mountain Terrane 4:83-84
boundary stratotypes 5:504, 5:506f