contrafuentes
English translation: ridges//spurs
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peer agreement (net): +1contrafueRtes Explanation: ?? parece ser http://www.google.co.uk/search?num=100&hl=en&as_qdr=all&sa=X... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 13 mins (2008-06-13 17:08:46 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- buttresses? -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 19 mins (2008-06-13 17:15:09 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Mountain Online - Sunshine Climbing in SA's Cape Province A series of rugged buttresses below which mountain slopes sweep into the sea ... of some of the most rugged and beautiful mountain ranges in the country. ... www.mountaineers.net/mountain/articles/m03-0002.htm - 12k - Cached - Similar pages About Table Mountain Cape Town - well known in South Africa and ... Table Mountain is timeless - at least in terms of the multifaceted human ... Peak and the rugged Eastern buttresses of the Table Mountain range stretching ... www.iata.co.za/Table-Mountain-Cape-Town.asp - 13k - Cached - Similar pages |
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fold-mountains Explanation: During the Mycene Period a marine sequence, originating in the fold-mountain system of the Andes, is deposited with (geological) sandy and clay facies towards the west Mountains- [ Traducir esta página ]MOUNTAINS. High mountain chains such as the Himalayas, Andes, Alps, and Rockies are known as new fold mountain systems. The term 'fold' is a reference to ... www.probertencyclopaedia.com/A_MOUNTAINS.HTM - 20k - En caché - Páginas similares mountain :: Andean-type belts -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia- [ Traducir esta página ]Thus Andean-type belts have a narrow belt of volcanoes and often a fold and thrust ... these complex fold-mountain systems from the Kamchatka-Kuril region, ... www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/394808/mountain/49662/An... - Páginas similares mountain :: The Andes -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia- [ Traducir esta página ]Thus the Venezuelan Andes are an intracontinental mountain belt. ... Sea separates these complex fold-mountain systems from the Kamchatka-Kuril region, ... www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/394808/mountain/49666/Th... - Páginas similares GCSE SCIENCE PHYSICS HIGH SCHOOL - Waves - Plate Tectonics ...- [ Traducir esta página ]The continental plate is crumpled and folded, giving rise to mountain ranges called fold mountains. The Andes mountain range is formed in this way, ... www.gcsescience.com/pwav63.htm - 9k - En caché - Páginas similares Geography Site: Fold Mountains,Origins,Human Uses and HEP- [ Traducir esta página ]11 May 2006 ... The Andes are an example of fold mountains formed at a destructive plate margin. When two continental plates move towards each other, ... www.geography-site.co.uk/pages/physical/earth/fold_mountain... - 12k - En caché - Páginas similares The Andes Mountains- [ Traducir esta página ]Tucked away in the high reaches of the Andes mountains, along the border between ... This pressure has caused the sedimentary rocks to bend and fold up into ... www.letus.northwestern.edu/projects/esp/top10/andespage/and... - 4k - En caché - Páginas similares Fold Mountains- [ Traducir esta página ]More well-know examples of fold mountains are the Himalayas in Asia and the Andes in South America. Read More. Geographical Features Formed By Plate ... library.thinkquest.org/17701/high/geofeatures/fefoldmt.html - 6k - En caché - Páginas similares Andes Mountains- [ Traducir esta página ]The Andes were formed by the process of Fold Mountains. ... However, there are other processes that shape mountains such as, the Andes. ... www.megaessays.com/essay_search/Andes_Mountains.html - Páginas similares Journal of Geodynamics : Andean evolution at the Guañacos and Chos ...- [ Traducir esta página ]Also note that a series of eastern mountain ranges is incorporated in the fold and thrust belt east of the main Andes north of this latitude associated with ... linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0264370707000245 - Páginas similares Geological Society of America - Highlights from GSA Bulletin- [ Traducir esta página ]The kinematic history of the central Andean fold-thrust belt, ... The Andean mountain chain borders the one of the largest orogenic plateaus in the world. ... www.geosociety.org/news/pr/02-38.htm - 19k - En caché - Páginas similares Fold (geology) - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia- [ Traducir esta página ]Large-scale folding will develop parallel ranges of round-top mountains along destructive plate boundaries. These mountains are known as fold mountains. ... simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fold_(geology) - 18k - En caché - Páginas similares On the methodology of engineering geological mapping in folded ...Engineering geological conditions of fold mountain regions are ex-. tremely varied. However, in spite of this, it is possible, in principle, ... www.springerlink.com/index/21547161QXV273R0.pdf - Páginas similares WVGES Geology: Mountains- [ Traducir esta página ]Fault-block mountains are formed by the movement of large crustal blocks along faults .... is given to the West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey. ... www.wvgs.wvnet.edu/www/geology/geolf001.htm - 19k - En caché - Páginas similares block mountain: Definition and Much More from Answers.com- [ Traducir esta página ]block mountain ( ′bläk ′mau̇ntən ) ( geology ) A mountain formed by the ... What is the difference between a fold mountain or a fold block mountain? ... www.answers.com/topic/block-mountain - 37k - En caché - Páginas similares A Fault Block Mountain- [ Traducir esta página ]Steens mountain, a favor de a fault-block mountain in eastern oregon three sisters, oregon the south sister has shown recent geologic activity. ... dosaaf.fortunecity.com/afansvie34/a-fault-block-mountain.html - 22k - hace 19 horas - En caché - Páginas similares Simonswald Geology- [ Traducir esta página ]Two types of mountain are formed depending on how the rock reacts to the tectonic forces: "block" or "fold" mountains. Some isolated mountains were produced ... www.simonswald.com/geology/index.html - 12k - En caché - Páginas similares Geology Dictionary - Definition of Term Fault-block Mountain- [ Traducir esta página ]Geology Dictionary - Definition of Term Fault-block Mountain. ... Definition : A mountain containing tall horsts interspersed with much lower grabens and ... www.alcwin.org/Dictionary_Of_Geology_Description-43-F.htm - 49k - En caché - Páginas similares Why himalayas are called young fold mountains? - Yahoo! Answers- [ Traducir esta página ]They are fold mountains because of the compressive forces involved in the collision of the two ... And, in Geological terms, they are quite young. ... answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070614090047AAwEdAv - 36k - En caché - Páginas similares Geology of the Ouachita Mountains; Rockhounding Arkansas- [ Traducir esta página ]Geologic explanation of how the Ouachita Mountains were formed. ... The Ouachita Mountains are fold mountains, just like the Appalachian Mountains. ... rockhoundingar.com/geology/ouamtns.html - 9k - En caché - Páginas similares fold -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia- [ Traducir esta página ]Geologists have reviewed the Paleozoic development of the Tasman Fold Belt ... Simple fold mountains form where sediments have been folded by sliding over ... www.britannica.com/eb/article-9034743/fold - 56k - En caché - Páginas similares Fold Mountains- [ Traducir esta página ]The crust and the rocks get bent and crumpled, and massive layers of Earth's crust gets uplifted as a result, forming spectacular fold mountains. ... library.thinkquest.org/17701/high/geofeatures/fefoldmt.html - 6k - En caché - Páginas similares GeoTopics @ GeoNet- [ Traducir esta página ]Fold mountains are mountains formed from the folding of the earth's crust. ... Fold mountains are formed when two plates move together (a compressional ... www.bennett.karoo.net/topics/foldmountain.html - 15k - En caché - Páginas similares Geography Site: Fold Mountains,Origins,Human Uses and HEP- [ Traducir esta página ]11 May 2006 ... Fold mountains are created by uplift and folding of tectonic plates as they move ... The Andes are an example of fold mountains formed at a ... www.geography-site.co.uk/pages/physical/earth/fold_mountain... - 12k - En caché - Páginas similares WikiAnswers - How are fold mountains formed- [ Traducir esta página ]Geology question: How are fold mountains formed? the fold mountains were fomed due to the internal movement of the earth. the crust of earth is made up of ... wiki.answers.com/Q/How_are_fold_mountains_formed - 38k - En caché - Páginas similares mountain :: Fold Mountains -- Britannica Student Encyclopaedia- [ Traducir esta página ]mountain, Fold Mountains: Distinguished by large-scale folding, fold mountains are caused by lateral compression and simultaneous or subsequent uplift of ... student.britannica.com/comptons/article-204986/mountain - 30k - En caché - Páginas similares A Fault Block Mountain- [ Traducir esta página ]A fault block mountain Fault plane: fault scarp: fault-block mountain: fauna: fbc: fcc: fda: feasibility study environmental geotechnology dictionary edited ... dosaaf.fortunecity.com/afansvie34/a-fault-block-mountain.html - 22k - hace 19 horas - En caché - Páginas similares Geology Dictionary - Facies, Felsic, Fumarole - GEOLOGY.COM- [ Traducir esta página ]A geology dictionary of geological terms from Geology.com. ... Facies:. The characteristics of a rock mass that reflect its depositional environment. ... geology.com/dictionary/glossary-f.shtml - 26k - En caché - Páginas similares NR - Norwegian Computing Center- [ Traducir esta página ]NR has worked on methods for making realistic geological facies models for almost two decades. The goal is to reproduce the true geological heterogeneity ... www.nr.no/pages/sand/area_Facies_Models - 15k - En caché - Páginas similares The relationship between petrophysical properties and geological ...- [ Traducir esta página ]Porosity-permeability, permeability-irreducible water saturation, log derived facies-geological fades, capillary pressure, and resistivity behavior were ... cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=17761102 - Páginas similares IngentaConnect Leonardo da Vinci: Founder of the science of ...- [ Traducir esta página ]It is shown that Leonardo da Vinci is the founder of the science of geological facies. His principal geological concepts, which passed several centuries ... www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maik/limi/2005/00000040/0000... - Páginas similares Leonardo da Vinci: Founder of the Science of Geological Faciesand development of the science of geological facies. However, it is beyond question that Leonardo da Vinci. was the founder of this science. ... www.springerlink.com/index/K73388N6003U6167.pdf - Páginas similares Method and apparatus for determining geological facies - Patent ...- [ Traducir esta página ]In a method and apparatus for obtaining a recording of facies of geological formations, logging instruments are moved in a borehole to produce log ... www.freepatentsonline.com/4646240.html - 135k - En caché - Páginas similares Sedimentary Geology : Facies changes in the Triassic–Jurassic ...- [ Traducir esta página ]Rising relative sea-level that followed the marked early Rhaetian lowstand is also reflected in the general facies trend from lithoclastic debris-flows and ... linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0037073804000867 - Páginas similares [PDF] Layout 1Formato de archivo: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Versión en HTML Large numbers of wells can be quicky and efficiently incorpo-. rated in the facies model. •. Geological knowledge can be used to guide the simulation by ... www.roxar.com/getfile.php/Files/RMSindicators MTE3ODc4NTE2N... - Páginas similares [PDF] AUTOMATIC HISTORY MATCHING OF GEOLOGIC FACIES NING LIUFormato de archivo: PDF/Adobe Acrobat The locations of the geologic facies in a reservoir simulation model are .... method for producing geological facies maps conditional to facies proportions ... mpge.ou.edu/research/documents/Main.pdf - Páginas similares Method and apparatus for determining geological facies - US Patent ...- [ Traducir esta página ]Method and apparatus for determining geological facies - US Patent 4646240 from PatentStorm. In a method and apparatus for obtaining a recording of facies ... www.patentstorm.us/patents/4646240.html - 17k - En caché - Páginas similares |
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counterpoints Explanation: Defenition in the Marriam Webster dictionary "a complementing or contrasting item" |
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source Explanation: Lo que quiere decir es que en el Mioceno se deposita una secuencia marina que contiene una facies arenosa (facies, no facie) y otra facies arcillosa, y el aporte o la fuente (de los sedimentos depositados) proviene de la Cordillera Occidental. During the Miocene, a marine sequence with a sand facies and a clay facies, is deposited; with filling source coming from the Cordillera Occidental (or Western Range) -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 8 hrs (2008-06-14 00:55:31 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- La contraparte de la cuenca de depósito es la cordillera, yo creo que por eso le llaman la contrafuente, aunque más bien es la fuente de origen de los sedimentos |
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| contrafuertes ridges//spurs Explanation: mountain ridges or spurs 'contrafuerte is definged in Robb as 'spur'. "counterfort' is used in numerous refs, but most of them are from non-English sites, which makes them suspect including the following. However it does define 'counterfort' as 'ridge'. Mountain photos - amateur and professional photos of mountains. .... R 3 Vastly destroyed rocky ridge (counterfort), traverse along the wall across the ... www.mountain.ru/article/article_display1.php?article_id=251... |
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