Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
deplacamiento
English translation:
plate movement
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artsandlanguage
Oct 1, 2009 21:52
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deplacamiento
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Dear translators, I hope you can help me. I am having real trouble with this word. I wasn't sure it existed at first, thought it could be a typo, so I asked the person who commissioned the translation, who has explained it thus:
"Deplacamiento es una alteración de las rocas cuando hay
separación de la materia de forma paralela a la superficie (como placas) no siempre hay desplazamiento o pérdida; las exfoliaciones también corresponden a este tipo de pérdidas pero son más finitas como escamas.
Here is the context in the actual translation:
Rupturas y disyunciones del soporte pétreo: fracturas, grietas, fisuras, deplacamientos, exfoliaciones.
"Deplacamiento es una alteración de las rocas cuando hay
separación de la materia de forma paralela a la superficie (como placas) no siempre hay desplazamiento o pérdida; las exfoliaciones también corresponden a este tipo de pérdidas pero son más finitas como escamas.
Here is the context in the actual translation:
Rupturas y disyunciones del soporte pétreo: fracturas, grietas, fisuras, deplacamientos, exfoliaciones.
Proposed translations
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| 4 +2 | plate movement |
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| 4 | sheeting |
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plate movement
Geography > Plate Tectonics
Geography · Health and Social Care .... In some regions, the boundaries are not well defined because the plate-movement deformation occurring there extends ...
sixthsense.osfc.ac.uk/geography/pages/.../plate_tectonics.asp - Cached - SimilarAn Introduction to Physical Geography and the Environment - Google Books Result
by Joseph Holden - 2008 - Science - 762 pages
2.5.2 Rates of plate movement Vine and Matthews (1963) were the first to calculate both the rate and direction of plate motion over the past several million ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0131753045...S-Cool | Plates and plate movement
Home · A-level · Geography · Natural Hazards; Plates and plate movement. Home · GCSE · A-level · Art · Biology · Business Studies AS & A2 Level · Chemistry ...
www.s-cool.co.uk/.../geography/.../plates-and-plate-movemen... - Cached - SimilarPlate Movement Lesson Plan, Forces That Shape the Earth, Worksheet ...
Student will list the three primary types of plate movement • Student will be able to describe the resulting geographical elements that result from plate ...
www.lessonsnips.com/lesson/platemovement - Cached - Similar
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Note added at 30 mins (2009-10-01 22:23:09 GMT)
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"(tectonic) plate shifts" is also possible...
Geography · Health and Social Care .... In some regions, the boundaries are not well defined because the plate-movement deformation occurring there extends ...
sixthsense.osfc.ac.uk/geography/pages/.../plate_tectonics.asp - Cached - SimilarAn Introduction to Physical Geography and the Environment - Google Books Result
by Joseph Holden - 2008 - Science - 762 pages
2.5.2 Rates of plate movement Vine and Matthews (1963) were the first to calculate both the rate and direction of plate motion over the past several million ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0131753045...S-Cool | Plates and plate movement
Home · A-level · Geography · Natural Hazards; Plates and plate movement. Home · GCSE · A-level · Art · Biology · Business Studies AS & A2 Level · Chemistry ...
www.s-cool.co.uk/.../geography/.../plates-and-plate-movemen... - Cached - SimilarPlate Movement Lesson Plan, Forces That Shape the Earth, Worksheet ...
Student will list the three primary types of plate movement • Student will be able to describe the resulting geographical elements that result from plate ...
www.lessonsnips.com/lesson/platemovement - Cached - Similar
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Note added at 30 mins (2009-10-01 22:23:09 GMT)
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"(tectonic) plate shifts" is also possible...
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sheeting
From geology lectures:
Sheeting and exfoliation
When subsurface confining stress is released fast, and the rock exposed to the surface, if the rock has large residual stress, it will be broken into blocks. The fracture in vertical direction form exfoliation. If the fracture is in horizontal direction, it calls sheeting.
http://www.engr.uconn.edu/~lanbo/G229Lect06121Weathering.pdf
Another type of jointing develops when cracks form parallel to the topographic surface, called “sheeting”. These types of joints result when uplift and erosion removes the confining pressure of the overlying rock layers. As a result the rocks rebound and tend to break into slab-like layers.
http://www.dmtcalaska.org/course_dev/explogeo/class10/notes1...
Sheeting and exfoliation
When subsurface confining stress is released fast, and the rock exposed to the surface, if the rock has large residual stress, it will be broken into blocks. The fracture in vertical direction form exfoliation. If the fracture is in horizontal direction, it calls sheeting.
http://www.engr.uconn.edu/~lanbo/G229Lect06121Weathering.pdf
Another type of jointing develops when cracks form parallel to the topographic surface, called “sheeting”. These types of joints result when uplift and erosion removes the confining pressure of the overlying rock layers. As a result the rocks rebound and tend to break into slab-like layers.
http://www.dmtcalaska.org/course_dev/explogeo/class10/notes1...
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