υποθαλάσσια υβώματα

English translation: underwater mounds

07:24 Oct 3, 2009

Greek to English translations [PRO]
Science - Geology

Greek term or phrase: υποθαλάσσια υβώματα

the expression is used to refer to geological layers and lithographic phases of an area.here I attach the context in which the expression is used. It refers to some fenomenon/formation which takes place under the sea. the excerpt is taken from a document showing the geological situation of a particular area. Different kinds of rocks, limestones etc are described showing the various geological phases.

ο παλαιογεωγραφικός χώρος της xxxxxxx αύλακας διαφορποιήθηκε περισσότερο,με τη δράση κυρίως υποθαλάσσιων ρηγμάτων, σε επί μέρους επιμήκεις αύλακες και υποθαλάσσια υβώματα,

what is it the correspondant scientific term in English? I couldn' t find υβώματα on any Greek dictionary, not even monolingual.

Thank you, anipsioula

Claudia Corriero KudoZ activity Questions: 8 (none open) (1 without valid answers) Answers: 1 Ireland
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English translation:underwater mounds

Explanation:
σύρση των «πορτών» του αλιευτικού εξοπλισμού και ***υβώματα βιογενούς προέλευσης (biogenic mounds)***. Η περιοχή έρευνας ταξινομήθηκε σε επιμέρους περιοχές με ...
openarchives.gr/view/98366

http://www.google.gr/search?rlz=1C1CHMC_elGR291GR304&sourcei...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mound

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Spiros Doikas
Local time: 03:12

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Thanks for the help. It gave me a path to follow since I was actually looking for the Italian translation.
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underwater mounds

Spiros Doikas

underwater swells

Vangelis Tatsis

submarine sills

Nick Lingris

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underwater mounds

Spiros Doikas
Local time: 03:12
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Thanks for the help. It gave me a path to follow since I was actually looking for the Italian translation.

1 hr confidence:

underwater swells

Explanation:
swell: a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor) (definition by Google)

IATE
http://iate.europa.eu/iatediff/SearchByQuery.do?method=searc...

Example sentence(s):

Είναι ένα μεγάλο υποθαλάσσιο ύβωμα, που εκτείνεται για αρκετές εκατοντάδες χιλιομέτρων στο μέσον περίπου των ωκεανών. (http://www.gein.noa.gr/Greek/WEB-EDU
bottom topography features - more precise information about disposition and configurations of the bottom shallows, a banks and underwater swells (situated near coast and between the straits)

Reference: http://glossary.eea.europa.eu/terminology/concept_html?term=...
Reference: http://www.isprs.org/publications/related/ISRSE/html/papers/...

Vangelis Tatsis
Greece
Local time: 03:12
Native speaker of: Greek

3 hrs confidence:

submarine sills

Explanation:
Αν πιστέψουμε τον Πάπυρο (αντιγράφω από το λεξικό, με τη συντομότερη εγγραφή):
ύβωμα το. -ώματος, ΝΑ· κύρτωμα ράχης, ύβος, καμπούρα· || (νεοελλ.) 1. (γεωγρ·) τοποθεσία με ενδιάμεσο υψόμετρο, η οποία περιβάλλεται από περιοχές αντίθετου αναγλύφου, λ.χ. όρη ή λόφοι από τη μία πλευρά και πεδιάδες από την άλλη, τοποθεσία που αποτελεί συχνά και υδροκρίτη· 2. (φρ.) «υποθαλάσσιο ύβωμα»· (γεωλ.) ανυψωμένο τμήμα τού θαλάσσιου πυθμένα, συνήθως με τη μορφή ράχης, που διαχωρίζει δύο θαλάσσιες λεκάνες ή, πιο συχνά, απομονώνει ένα βύθισμα τού θαλάσσιου πυθμένα.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < ὑβοῦμαι. Ως όρος τής γεωγρ. και τής γεωλ. η λ. είναι απόδοση στην ελλ. ξεν. όρων πρβλ. γαλλ. seuil και αγγλ. submarine sill, αντίστοιχα].

Από Encarta:
http://www.encarta.co.uk/encyclopedia_761562552/Arctic_Ocean...
More importantly, the Arctic waters mix with those of the Atlantic Ocean across a system of submarine sills (shallow ridges) that span the great distances from Scotland to Greenland and from Greenland to Baffin Island at depths of about 500 to 700 m (1,640 to 2,300 ft).

Ο όρος είναι παλιός, αν κρίνω από το γλωσσάρι της Unesco (του 1960):
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0015/001540/154074mb.pdf

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Additional information.
Oxford English Dictionary:
sill
e.3.e A high ridge on the sea bed that effectively separates the bodies of water on either side.
   1933 Geogr. Jrnl. LXXXI. 571 Hamish island, situated on the shallow sill of the Red Sea.    1942 O. D. von Engeln Geomorphol. xix. 468 They [sc. fiords] are closed at the seaward end by a distinct rock sill at shallow depth, beyond which the descent to the deeper ocean waters begins.    1978 Nature 14 Dec. 680/2 Outflowing Mediterranean subsurface waters.‥ They spill over the sill at Gibraltar (330 m).

Britannica:
If there is a sill (a submarine ridge or rise)...
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/544561/sill/544561...

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/geology/dsdp/doc/sitesum.txt
Sill:
A submarine ridge or rise at a relatively shallow depth, separating a partly closed basin from another or from an adjacent sea.

Πάπυρος:
http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/8315/submarinesill.jpg

    Reference: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&rlz=1B3GGGL_enGR...
    Reference: http://books.google.com/books?ei=0inHSp2gPMnJ_ga4wuX0BA&ct=r...

Nick Lingris
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:12
Native speaker of:

Greek
PRO pts in category: 28

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