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mineral paragenesisstresses
geol. минеральный парагенезис (Paragenesis is the association of minerals in rocks and rock suites considered in relation to their origin (Bowes, 1989, p. 452). The term was introduced by a distinguished German mineralogist and crystallographer, Johann Friedrich August Breithaupt (1791–1873) in a major work, Die Paragenesis der Mineralien (1849). The concept of mineral paragenesis, sensu stricto, applies to characteristic associations of minerals in ore deposits that connote contemporaneous formation, presumably in chemical equilibrium. twinkie)