desplacamento
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| Portuguese to English translations [PRO] Social Sciences - Geology / planejamento urbano | |||||||
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| 5 | Landslide |
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| 4 +1 | could be Tectonic Shifting or even spalling |
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| 3 +1 | sheet jointing |
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| 4 | Spalling... flaking |
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Landslide Explanation: Maybe you want to use "Landslide" or "landslip" Example sentence(s):
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landslide |
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peer agreement (net): +1sheet jointing Explanation: Definition in Portuguese:DESPLACAMENTO Quebra ou segmentação de corpos rochosos em placas ou lamelas, geralmente subparalelas à superfície do terreno. From http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:eodL1fI... Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exfoliation_joint Reference: http://www.springerlink.com/content/pg051rp527n829l5/ |
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peer agreement (net): +1could be Tectonic Shifting or even spalling Explanation: could be Tectonic Shifting or even spalling |
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Spalling... flaking Explanation: Spalling; flaking Desplacamento de Blocos Como vimos anteriormente, consiste no movimento ocasionado pelo desprendimento de fragmentos ou placas de rochas, ao longo da superfície de estruturas geológicas (xistosidade, acamamento, fraturamento), devido principalmente às variações térmicas ou à alívios de tensão http://www.rc.unesp.br/igce/aplicada/ead/interacao/inter09h.... Dicionário_de_Barragens_GERAL_(definitiva)c(2)-1 (port - esp - ing ... www.scribd.com/.../Dicionario-de-Barragens-GERAL-definitiva... - ... destaque de lascas; desplacamento Fratura Fraturamento Fraturamento ... and erection Scour hole Photoelastic Photogrammetry Photosynthesis Spalling; . spalling 1. spalling present participle of spall (Verb) 1. Break (ore, rock, stone, or concrete) into smaller pieces, esp. in preparation for sorting. 2. (of ore, rock, or stone) Break off in fragments. More » www.Answers.com - Merriam-Webster - The Free Dictionary spalling - definition of spalling by the Free Online Dictionary ... www.thefreedictionary.com/spalling - A chip, fragment, or flake from a piece of stone or ore. v. spalled, spall·ing, spalls. v.tr. To break up into chips or fragments. v.intr. ... |
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