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to grow updip

Flemish translation: opwaarts in de laagte / knik / inzinking / kuil

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English term or phrase:to grow updip
Flemish translation:opwaarts in de laagte / knik / inzinking / kuil
Entered by: Henk Peelen

20:27 Apr 13, 2004
English to Flemish translations [Non-PRO]
Science - Geology / tectonic
English term or phrase: to grow updip
because the faults grow updip as more sediment accumulates, they are also called growth faults.
betje17
Local time: 16:36
opwaarts in de laagte / knik / inzinking / kuil
Explanation:
Oxford English Dictionary:
Geol.


A. adj. (Stressed "up-dip.) Situated or occurring in a direction upwards along the dip. B. adv. (Stressed up-"dip.) In an up-dip direction.
1916 F. H. Lahee Field Geol. viii. 191 When a fault is approximately parallel to the strike of the strata, the block on the side of the fault toward which the dip of the beds is measured may be termed the down-dip block, and the other one is the up-dip block. 1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. i. 156 The bays originated as artesian springs, which tended to migrate inland up-dip. 1965 [see lenticularity]. 1974 R. D. Grace in P. L. Moore et al. Drilling Practices Manual xiii. 329 It predicts up~dip deviation when drilling into softer rock.
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opwaarts in de laagte / knik / inzinking / kuil


Explanation:
Oxford English Dictionary:
Geol.


A. adj. (Stressed "up-dip.) Situated or occurring in a direction upwards along the dip. B. adv. (Stressed up-"dip.) In an up-dip direction.
1916 F. H. Lahee Field Geol. viii. 191 When a fault is approximately parallel to the strike of the strata, the block on the side of the fault toward which the dip of the beds is measured may be termed the down-dip block, and the other one is the up-dip block. 1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. i. 156 The bays originated as artesian springs, which tended to migrate inland up-dip. 1965 [see lenticularity]. 1974 R. D. Grace in P. L. Moore et al. Drilling Practices Manual xiii. 329 It predicts up~dip deviation when drilling into softer rock.

Henk Peelen
Netherlands
Local time: 16:36
Native speaker of: Native in DutchDutch
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