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Portuguese term or phrase:
familia de cavalgamentos
English translation:
set of thrusts
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Nina_PT
Nov 15, 2011 10:28
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familia de cavalgamentos
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Geology
As acções tectónicas provocaram uma família de cavalgamentos, conduzindo a que formações mais antigas se sobreponham a formações mais recentes, formando como que um conjunto de escamas empilhadas, cujos contactos são, neste caso, mecânicos.
Proposed translations
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| 5 +1 | set of thrusts |
Nina_PT
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| 4 | set of overlapping (strata) |
kashew
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Nov 17, 2011 17:04: Nina_PT Created KOG entry
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set of thrusts
"[Inglês:thrust fault]. Falha inversa de baixo ângulo e com mergulho menor do que 15o chama-se falha de cavalgamento ou de acavalamento..."
http://geotesouro.blogspot.com/2010/04/falha-de-cavalgamento...
Ver também: http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=thrust f...
Exemplos de aplicação de 'set of thrusts':
"Near the edge of the platform, the gravity sliding system on the shelf is interpreted to terminate in a set of thrusts. The location of the late Mesozoic carbonate ... "
http://books.google.com/books/about/Salt_tectonics.html?id=y...
"Instead of a positive flower structure you could have a parallel set of thrusts and vertical strike-slip faults."
http://maps.unomaha.edu/maher/GEOL3300/week15/transcurrent.h...
"zone between the first set of thrusts and the indenter margin remained nearly undeformed, as expected from slip-line theory (e.g., Molnar and Tapponnier, 1977). ..."
[PDF]
Indentation model of the Eastern Alps and the origin of the Tauern ...
geology.gsapubs.org/content/32/11/997.full.pdf
http://geotesouro.blogspot.com/2010/04/falha-de-cavalgamento...
Ver também: http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=thrust f...
Exemplos de aplicação de 'set of thrusts':
"Near the edge of the platform, the gravity sliding system on the shelf is interpreted to terminate in a set of thrusts. The location of the late Mesozoic carbonate ... "
http://books.google.com/books/about/Salt_tectonics.html?id=y...
"Instead of a positive flower structure you could have a parallel set of thrusts and vertical strike-slip faults."
http://maps.unomaha.edu/maher/GEOL3300/week15/transcurrent.h...
"zone between the first set of thrusts and the indenter margin remained nearly undeformed, as expected from slip-line theory (e.g., Molnar and Tapponnier, 1977). ..."
[PDF]
Indentation model of the Eastern Alps and the origin of the Tauern ...
geology.gsapubs.org/content/32/11/997.full.pdf
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set of overlapping (strata)
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Example sentence:
On the other hand, in the stratification approach the video sequence is divided into a set of overlapping strata, each stratum representing only a single event,
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