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French to English translations [PRO] Geology | |||||
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4 +1 | graben / fault block depression |
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3 | sunken basins |
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sunken basins Explanation: https://books.google.com.ar/books?isbn=0898866235 - Traducir esta página Rowland W. Tabor, Ralph Albert Haugerud - 1999 - Nature When looking back in geologic time at the erosional history of the North ... Mackin called this collection of sunken basins and uplifted blocks the Calkins Range, .. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 59 mins (2017-10-04 03:45:02 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- sunken or depressed geological formation -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2017-10-04 03:45:57 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/fr/dépression - Traducir esta página Synonyms: effondrement ... Type of: effondrement. an abrupt failure of function or complete physical exhaustion. n a sunken or depressed geological formation. |
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bassin d’effondrement graben / fault block depression Explanation: https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0520226860 Thomas Frederick Howard - 2000 - History Another terrain feature of great importance for early transportation was the deep fault-block depression, technically called a graben, that contains Lake Tahoe ... https://glosbe.com › Dictionary English › English-English Dictionary ... movements of the fault system at the Upper Rhinegraben is demonstrated. ... of the Archean and to fault-block depression of the Indin Lake supracrustal basin, ... https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0199213925 Winfried Lampert, Ulrich Sommer - 2007 - Nature Endemic species are frequently found in the deep graben (fault block depression) lakes of the Tertiary period (Lake Baikal, Lake Tanganyika, Lake Malawi, Lake ... Graben - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graben In geology, a graben is a depressed block of the Earth's crust bordered by parallel faults. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 6 hrs (2017-10-04 09:18:30 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- https://www.universalis.fr/encyclopedie/graben-fosse-d-effon... GRABEN ou FOSSÉ D'EFFONDREMENT - 12 articles : GRANDS LACS AFRICAINS • MORTE (MER) • MONTAGNES - Formation des chaînes de montagnes ... https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graben En géologie, un graben (terme d'origine allemande signifiant « fossé ») est un fossé tectonique d'effondrement entre des failles normales. ... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 13 hrs (2017-10-04 15:51:46 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Not the same as a "rift": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rift In geology, a rift is a linear zone where the lithosphere is being pulled apart and is an example of extensional tectonics. |
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