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basement

Portuguese translation: subsolo

00:02 Oct 16, 2006
English to Portuguese translations [PRO]
Science - Geology / geology
English term or phrase: basement
A complex of igneous and metamorphic rocks covered by sediments. (2) The crust of the Earth extending downwards to the Mohorovicíicè discontinuity.
CatarinaMassano
Portugal
Local time: 03:31
Portuguese translation:subsolo
Explanation:
geologia: subsolo
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mariajorge
Portugal
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5 +3subsolo
mariajorge
4basamento
Fernando Domeniconi


  

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subsolo


Explanation:
geologia: subsolo

mariajorge
Portugal
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basamento


Explanation:
Segundo o Glossário Geológico (online) do Departamento de Ciências da Terra da Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

635BASAMENTO
socle; substratum; sousbassement / basement(-complex) / Unterbau; Deckensohle
Série de rochas, geralmente de estrutura complexa, jacentes sob a cobertura dominantemente sedimentar. Em muitos lugares são rochas ígneas e metamórficas do Precâmbrico, mas, podem ser algures mais recentes, paleozóicas, mesozóicas, ou mesmo do Cenozóico

http://www.dct.fct.unl.pt/GGeo/GG609-647.html

Fernando Domeniconi
United States
Local time: 22:31
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