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English translation: spoil tip
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| 15:59 Dec 15, 2014 |
| Polish to English translations [PRO] Science - Mining & Minerals / Gems | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: petermark (X) United Kingdom Local time: 23:15 | ||||||
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| 3 +1 | spoil tip |
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| 3 | waste/spoil dump/heap |
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peer agreement (net): +1spoil tip Explanation: Suggestion. Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoil_tip |
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waste/spoil dump/heap Explanation: Dump - [cut] the pile created by such unloading, e.g. a bwaste dump (also called heap, pile, tip, spoil pike, etc.). - http://www.coaleducation.org/glossary.htm ---- Post-mining facilities such as open pit quarries, lignite mine spoilheaps, open pit sulphur mine spoil, and hard coal spoil heaps are theconsequences of fossil fuels and mineral extraction and are examplesof large scale land transformation - http://goo.gl/XUC9OH --------- Changes in the cover of dominant species during plant succession on abandoned fields differing in hydrology, on lignite mine spoil heaps and on sand dunes were examined for 5-year intervals. - http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/19900736300.html;jsession... ------- Pietrzykowski M. 2008. Macronutrient accumulation and relationships in a Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) ecosystem on reclaimed opencast lignite mine spoil heaps, in central Poland. |
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