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Record 1 2011-01-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tectonics
OBS

slickenside: Originally, a polished fault surface formed by frictional shear during sliding, but now used to denote any of several types of lineated fault surfaces.

OBS

slickenside; polished surface: terms used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tectonique
DEF

Section du plan de faille ayant subi par frottement un polissage mécanique ou affecté de stries, de rayures, de cannelures orientées dans le sens du déplacement.

CONT

Quant aux linéations de type discontinu, ce sont, par exemple, les stries bien visibles sur les surfaces de glissement (miroirs de faille) ou les lignes d'intersection de diaclases ou de surfaces de glissement.

OBS

miroir de faille : terme en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.

Spanish

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Record 2 2010-12-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Soil Science
  • Soil Mechanics (Engineering)
DEF

[A] smoothed surface along planes of weakness resulting from the movement of one mass of soil against another in soils dominated by swelling clays.

CONT

In several deposits, individual quartz-carbonate laminae are also bounded by striated slip surfaces, in some cases with hydrothermal slickenlines indicating vein development in active shear zones.

OBS

slickenside: term used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Science du sol
  • Mécanique des sols
DEF

Surface lisse sur les plans de faible résistance, résultant de la friction d'une masse de sol contre une autre dans des sols dominés par des argiles gonflantes.

CONT

Parmi les cutanes de tension, les plus fréquents sont les surfaces de friction dues au mouvement des argiles qui provoque un «lissage» des surfaces des unités structurales (les «slickenside» ou surface de friction).

CONT

Le glissement est caractérisé par une surface de glissement subverticale dans des dépôts glaciolacustres argileux.

OBS

surface de friction : terme en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.

Spanish

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