junta de distensão

English translation: extensional joints

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Portuguese term or phrase:junta de distensão
English translation:extensional joints
Entered by: Carla Saboia

20:47 Feb 25, 2011
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Geology / Fractures/Joints
Portuguese term or phrase: junta de distensão
"Essas estruturas (falhas transcorrentes ou de transferência, ou grandes juntas de distensão?) podem implicar em um componente de movimento direcional para a falha de contato..."

This is a technical report on a certain geological formation. Thanks!
Carla Saboia
Local time: 22:45
extensional joints
Explanation:
[PDF] CARACTERIZAÇÃO ESTRUTURAL DA ÁREA DA SERRA DO LETREIRO, OESTE DA ... - [ Translate this page ]
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by PR de CARVALHO COSTA - 2003 - Related articles
1 Curso de Geologia (CG/CCET/UFRN), Campus Universitário, Caixa Postal 1596, CEP 59078-970, ... extensional joints, or to synthetic and antithetic/conjugate faults, ..... Figura 8: Detalhe de banda de deformação com juntas de distensão ...

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Ur_KDDM...

Earth-prints: Quantitative analysis of extensional joints in the ...
by D Di Bucci - 2009 - Related articles
Title: Quantitative analysis of extensional joints in the southern Adriatic foreland (Italy), and the active tectonics of the Apulia region ...
www.earth-prints.org/handle/2122/5851

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[PDF] 2 CONGRESSO BRASILEIRO DE P&D EM PETRÓLEO & GÁS - [ Translate this page ]
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by CB de Almeida - Cited by 1 - Related articles
(alojamento em juntas de distensão, sítios pull-apart, falhas), indicam que o ... of examples of structural control at several scales (emplacement at extensional joints, pull-apart sites, faults and other dilatational structures), ...
www.portalabpg.org.br/PDPetro/2/1169.pdf

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ennsylvania Geological Survey: Trenton Black River Carbonates ...
Structural Geology. The Ridge and Valley structural province is the classic example .... The presence of several overprinted extensional joint sets implies ...
www.dcnr.state.pa.us/topogeo/tbr/tbrintro.aspx - Cached
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4extensional joints
Marlene Curtis
3unloading joint
Muriel Vasconcellos
3expansion joints
Nick Taylor


  

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unloading joint


Explanation:
See types of joints at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_(geology)

There are six types: tectonic, unloading, cooling, based on their action, plus strike, dip, and oblique, depending on their relationship to the rock.

Then see p. 38 of the folllowing thesis for a description of 'junta de distencao':
Junta de distensão. Cisalhamento puro. Cisalhamento simples ..... junta de distensão, ou uma zona de falha com múltiplas interseções, teoricamente ...
bdtd.bczm.ufrn.br/tedesimplificado/tde_busca/processaArquivo.php?...
Then see

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extensional joints


Explanation:
[PDF] CARACTERIZAÇÃO ESTRUTURAL DA ÁREA DA SERRA DO LETREIRO, OESTE DA ... - [ Translate this page ]
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
by PR de CARVALHO COSTA - 2003 - Related articles
1 Curso de Geologia (CG/CCET/UFRN), Campus Universitário, Caixa Postal 1596, CEP 59078-970, ... extensional joints, or to synthetic and antithetic/conjugate faults, ..... Figura 8: Detalhe de banda de deformação com juntas de distensão ...

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Ur_KDDM...

Earth-prints: Quantitative analysis of extensional joints in the ...
by D Di Bucci - 2009 - Related articles
Title: Quantitative analysis of extensional joints in the southern Adriatic foreland (Italy), and the active tectonics of the Apulia region ...
www.earth-prints.org/handle/2122/5851

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Note added at 17 mins (2011-02-25 21:05:27 GMT)
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[PDF] 2 CONGRESSO BRASILEIRO DE P&D EM PETRÓLEO & GÁS - [ Translate this page ]
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat
by CB de Almeida - Cited by 1 - Related articles
(alojamento em juntas de distensão, sítios pull-apart, falhas), indicam que o ... of examples of structural control at several scales (emplacement at extensional joints, pull-apart sites, faults and other dilatational structures), ...
www.portalabpg.org.br/PDPetro/2/1169.pdf

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Note added at 1 hr (2011-02-25 22:30:30 GMT)
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ennsylvania Geological Survey: Trenton Black River Carbonates ...
Structural Geology. The Ridge and Valley structural province is the classic example .... The presence of several overprinted extensional joint sets implies ...
www.dcnr.state.pa.us/topogeo/tbr/tbrintro.aspx - Cached

Marlene Curtis
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expansion joints


Explanation:
expansion joints

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