silexitos alveolares

English translation: alveolar silexites

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Portuguese term or phrase:silexitos alveolares
English translation:alveolar silexites
Entered by: Fabio Descalzi

11:59 Jul 5, 2008
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Science - Geology
Portuguese term or phrase: silexitos alveolares
areias relativamente mais claras e blocos de silexitos alveolares, brechóides.
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Local time: 23:23
alveolar silexites
Explanation:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Silexite-pegmatite-Mountain-quadrang...
Silexite and pegmatite in the Lyon Mountain quadrangle, Clinton County, New York (Circular - New York State Museum and Science Service)
by Albert Williams Postel (Author)
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Fabio Descalzi
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Local time: 23:23
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3 +1alveolar silexites
Fabio Descalzi
4"alveolar" cherty beds
Marcos Antonio


  

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alveolar silexites


Explanation:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Silexite-pegmatite-Mountain-quadrang...
Silexite and pegmatite in the Lyon Mountain quadrangle, Clinton County, New York (Circular - New York State Museum and Science Service)
by Albert Williams Postel (Author)

Fabio Descalzi
Uruguay
Local time: 23:23
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Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 8
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"alveolar" cherty beds


Explanation:
Sug.


- They are known as cherty beds (silexites of French authors). Diatomites, sponge-beds and radiolarites are siliceous rocks formed by the accumulation of ...
books.google.com.br/books?isbn=2710806991

- barite) and ‘silexite’ (a term used by French writers to denote massive chemically precipitated cherts) ... The unit cell a-value of the francolite is a = ...
www.uoguelph.ca/~geology/rocks_for_crops/12burkina.PDF

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