Empirical Metallogeny

1. Introduction. 2. Depositional environments and lithologic associations. 3. The world ocean. 4. Oceans: the regions underlain by oceanic crust. 5. Continental margins. 6. Orogenic belts. 7. Ophiolite association. 8. Melanges, suture zones, blueschist metamorphic belts and serpentinite filled faults. 9. Zoned mafic/ultramafic complexes in phanerozoic orogenic belts (Alaska or Ural type). 10. Unimodal mafic volcanic-sedimentary association. 11. Unimodal felsic volcanic- sedimentary association. 12. Bimodal volcanic-sedimentary association. 13. Andesite-dominated, marine to continental volcanic-sedimentary association. 14. Basalt, andesite, rhyolite sequentially-differentiated marine to continental volcanic-sedimentary association. 15. Pelagic sediments. 16. Deeper marine, sandstone-shale association: flysch facies. 17. Deeper marine argillite (slate, schist)-lesser chert, carbonate, arenite association ("black" sediments emphasis). 18. Continental platforms. 19. Shallow-marine detrital sedimentary association of orogenic belts and platforms. 20. Shallow-marine carbonates. 21. Marine evaporites. 22. Petroleum, natural gas, solid bitumens. 23. Weathering, soil profiles, karst. 24. Recent continental sedimentary environments and cainozoic unconsolidated continental sediments. 25. Pre-quaternary continental sedimentary association. 26. Continental, pre-quaternary, calc-alkaline volcanic and subvolcanic association. 27. Intracrustal and subcrustal environments. 28. Plutonic granite, diorite, (gabbro) association and its aureole. 29. High- to medium-grade metamorphosed terrains, katazonal granites, pegmatites. 30. Continental fragmentation, rifts, paleo-rifts. 31. Continental plateau basalt and bimodal volcanic association. 32. Diabase, gabbro and similar dikes and sills. 33. Alkaline igneous association. References. Indexes.