lenses

French translation: lentille(s)

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English term or phrase:lenses
French translation:lentille(s)
Entered by: GILLES MEUNIER

11:50 Feb 25, 2014
English to French translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Geology / Manual
English term or phrase: lenses
Can anyone translate lenses into French

Lenses and intervening waste zones pinches and swells between 100 and 200 m vertical depth of approximately 200 m. Mineralisation generally outcrop at surface.

Strike extent of the mineralization model in area 3 is approximately 900 m, plan width of the lens 6 m, vertical depth ranges from 40 to 80 m
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lentille(s)
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5 +2lentille(s)
GILLES MEUNIER
4 +1lentilles
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lenses/lens
lentille(s)


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GILLES MEUNIER
France
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agree  Gleyse
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agree  Jean-Claude Gouin
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lenses/lens
lentilles


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lens EN • lentille FR
géologie
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A rock formation of local extent, formed by variation in sedimentation in the original formation of sedimentary beds.

1986
http://gdt.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/Resultat.aspx

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Note added at 13 mins (2014-02-25 12:03:07 GMT)
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"lentille : GÉOL., MINÉR. Dépôt ou amas de faible épaisseur, s'amincissant sur les bords. Des schistes à calcéoles, avec nodules calcaires, qui finissent par constituer (...) des lentilles de calcaire compact (Lapparent, Abr. géol.,1886, p. 172).Une galerie destinée à recueillir l'huile d'une lentille pétrolifère (Chartrou, Pétroles natur. et artif.,1931, p. 63)."
http://www.cnrtl.fr/lexicographie/lentille

FX Fraipont (X)
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agree  Jean-Claude Gouin
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