la Fosa de Nazca
English translation: Peru-Chile Trench
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|  Selected response from: Richard Koenig Local time: 03:02 | ||||||
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| 4 +1 | Peru-Chile Trench |
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| 4 | Peru-Chile Trench (of the Nazca Plate) |
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| 5 -1 | Nazca through |
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| 3 | (Cocos-) Nazca rift |
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| 1 | Nazca Trough |
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peer agreement (net): +1Peru-Chile Trench Explanation: This is what the Brtiannica encyclopedia says below. This oceanic canyons are nearly all referred to as trenches. The deepest is the Mariana Trench, almost 7 miles deep, descended into by the Picard father and son team in the 60s. Reference: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/453259/Peru-Chile-... |
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Peru-Chile Trench (of the Nazca Plate) Explanation: Fosa means trench in this case. The term Nazcan trench does not exist, rather, as the source test suggests, the term Peru-Chile Trench does. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 15 mins (2010-06-18 09:56:36 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Apologies, should have said "source text" Example sentence(s):
Reference: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/453259/Peru-Chile-... |
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13 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): -1
peer agreement (net): -1Nazca through Explanation: After safely landing, myself and a few others arranged a taxi to take us to the pre-Incan cemetery of Chauchilla. The 2000 year old cemetery is a 30 minute drive from **** Nazca through **** the parched desert. http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/christosp/1/124... ext day I moved on to **** Nazca through **** this great scenery. Nazca, no big deal moving right along, moved on to Pisco and went out to see the Islands, Balletos, the poor mans gallapegos, it was great. http://www.haenertsburg.co.za/bruce/index.php?paged=3 -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 17 minutos (2010-06-18 09:58:48 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Diccionario Espasa concise inglés-español © 2000 Espasa Calpe: fosa 3 Geography (deep): trough http://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=fosa |
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