Model of Manganese Ore Formation in the Supergene Zone

Abstract

In geological science, in particular, in the geochemistry of sedimentary ore formation, relatively complete genetic models are created as a result of tight interaction of three methods:

• 1. Observation, and study of modern and ancient natural objects, accumulation, and understanding of empirical data, distinguishing of significant information, and factors that determine the investigated phenomena. In these investigations it is necessary to reduce the rather complicated natural system to some relatively elementary system.

• 2. Modeling, experimental simulation of separate parts or stages of processes with the inevitable simplification of the system.

• 3. The historical method is essential, because the history of geochemical events is manifested in the change of conditions, environments, and in the general trend of the basin development, i.e. in evolution of the proceeding processes.