dipping

French translation: pendage

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English term or phrase:dipping
French translation:pendage
Entered by: GILLES MEUNIER

10:31 Feb 21, 2014
English to French translations [PRO]
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English term or phrase: dipping
Can anyone translate dipping into French

It occurs as northwest-southeast striking and moderately south and southwest dippings sheared interval between classic meta-sedimentary rocks in the hanging wall and meta-igneous rocks in the footwall.
Dr EC
Local time: 01:36
pendage
Explanation:
Angle de la ligne de plus grande pente avec le Nord

http://www.geologues-prospecteurs.fr/cours/geologie-structur...

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http://books.google.fr/books?id=EQGX_PBkWm0C&pg=PA34&lpg=PA3...
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GILLES MEUNIER
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Local time: 01:36
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4 +1pendage
GILLES MEUNIER
4 -2plongeante
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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
pendage


Explanation:
Angle de la ligne de plus grande pente avec le Nord

http://www.geologues-prospecteurs.fr/cours/geologie-structur...

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Note added at 11 minutes (2014-02-21 10:42:18 GMT)
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http://books.google.fr/books?id=EQGX_PBkWm0C&pg=PA34&lpg=PA3...

GILLES MEUNIER
France
Local time: 01:36
Native speaker of: French
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  ISABELLE BELPOIS: Pendage tout à fait. Le terme était d'ailleurs dans votre lien pour "azimut" ainsi que dans le mien!
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -2
plongeante


Explanation:
Des plaques entrent en collision/se frappent avec des plaques plongeantes d'où des fissures

HERBET Abel
Local time: 01:36
Native speaker of: French
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  ISABELLE BELPOIS: Il est question ici du cisaillement entre deux formations géologiques différentes et non de plaques en zone de subduction.
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disagree  GILLES MEUNIER: Substantif ici et non adjectif, voir lien
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