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CEMENTED GRAVEL [8 records]

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Record 1 2012-02-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
DEF

An extensive, nearly level, low desert plain from which fine sand has been removed by the wind, leaving a sheet of coarse, smoothly angular, wind-polished gravel and small stones lying on an alluvial soil and strongly cemented by mineralized solutions to form a broad desert pavement.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
DEF

Désert rocheux d'où, en surface, les parties fines (sable et poussière) ont été enlevées par le vent [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Geomorfología y geomorfogénesis
DEF

Desierto de las regiones áridas y semiáridas, que ha sido transformado en pedregal por la deflación.

CONT

Las precipitaciones de la estación pluvial sobre los macizos montañosos del Sahara forman torrentes de gran potencia que arrancan materiales en las vertientes y los transportan hasta el llano, antes de perderse en cuencas endorreicas. Allí se ejerce, en el curso de los milenios, la acción conjugada de la arroyada y del viento que transforma esos derrubios. Con ellos se constituirán dos formaciones distintas: el erg, de arena, y el reg, pedregal de cantos pulidos por el viento cargado de arena.

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Record 2 2009-06-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
  • Petrography
DEF

A broad, gently sloping rock surface at the base of a steeper slope, often covered with interlocked, loosely cemented gravel, formed primarily by erosion.

OBS

[This] surface of erosion ... resembles a bajada in surface form.

OBS

pediment; piedmont interstream flat; conoplain; rock pediment; pedimentation surface: terms used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

PHR

Concealed pediment.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
  • Pétrographie
DEF

Formation rocheuse couverte d'une couche mince d'alluvions.

OBS

Le terme «pédiment» est réservé aux surfaces taillées dans les roches massives et les termes «glacis d'érosion», «glacis d'ablation» et «glacis rocheux», à celles taillées dans les roches tendres (cf. le Grand dictionnaire encyclopédique Larousse, 1982, vol. 5, p. 4816, le Dictionnaire de géologie, 1984, p. 145 et le Vocabulaire franco-anglo-allemand de géomorphologie, 1966, p. 52).

OBS

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

PHR

Pédiment couvert.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Geomorfología y geomorfogénesis
  • Petrografía
DEF

Glacis, de pendiente muy suave, formado sobre una roca dura por una capa de 1 a 2 m de aluviones de la cual emergen relieves residuales.

CONT

Los pedimentos son característicos de climas semiáridos favorables a la disgregación del granito y otras rocas duras en partículas suficientemente finas para que puedan ser transportadas por la arroyada difusa.

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Record 3 2009-06-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
  • Petrography
DEF

A broad, gently sloping rock surface at the base of a steeper slope, often covered with interlocked, loosely cemented gravel, formed primarily by erosion.

OBS

[This] surface of erosion ... resembles a bajada in surface form.

OBS

pediment; piedmont interstream flat; conoplain; rock pediment; pedimentation surface: terms used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

PHR

Concealed pediment.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
  • Pétrographie
DEF

Glacis entaillé dans des roches meubles ou des altérites, à profil transversal concave d'amont en aval (12° à 1°) dominée par un système de versants raides.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Geomorfología y geomorfogénesis
  • Petrografía
  • rampa de erosión
DEF

Glacis, de pendiente muy suave, formado sobre una roca dura por una capa de 1 a 2 m de aluviones de la cual emergen relieves residuales.

CONT

Los pedimentos son característicos de climas semiáridos favorables a la disgregación del granito y otras rocas duras en partículas suficientemente finas para que puedan ser transportadas por la arroyada difusa.

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Record 4 2006-03-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Soil Science
DEF

... a conglomerate consisting of surficial sand and gravel cemented into a hard mass by calcium carbonate precipitated from solution and redeposited through the agency of infiltrating waters, or deposited by the escape of carbon dioxide from vadose water.

CONT

Calcite ... is commonly disseminated, but also occurs in indurated forms ... as nodules or as hard calcareous ... layers termed calcrete ...

CONT

Evaporites, caliche, calcrete, mudcracks, and other features record arid and semiarid continental environments of sedimentation.

OBS

calcrete: Suggested by Lamplug for conglomerates formed by the cementation of surficial gravels by calcium carbonate. Calcicrete was suggested by Bonney as preferable.

OBS

Etymology: calcareous + concrete.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Science du sol
DEF

Croûte calcaire d'un sol [...]

CONT

[...] la précipitation de calcaire survient [...] notamment par évaporation. [...] C'est [...] la cause [...] de la formation de croûtes (caliches sur sédiment calcaire, calcrètes sur sédiments non calcaires) liées à la pédogenèse.

CONT

[...] en climat subaride, tropical, la formation de croûtes calcaires peut aboutir à des gîtes d'uranium de type calcrète.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ciencia del suelo
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Record 5 2006-03-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Soil Science
  • Geochemistry
DEF

... a conglomerate consisting of surficial sand and gravel cemented into a hard mass by iron oxide derived from the oxidation of percolating solutions of iron salts.

CONT

In some areas iron-rich, silica-rich, apatite-rich, or gypsum-rich duricrusts form due to the abundance of Fe, Si, phosphate, or sulphate in the host sequence: they are known as ferricrete, silicrete, phoscrete, or gypcrete, respectively.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Science du sol
  • Géochimie
CONT

Dans certaines régions, les croûtes concrétionnées riches en fer, en silice, en apatite ou en gypse se sont formées grâce à l'abondance de Fe, de Si, de phosphates ou de sulfates dans la séquence hôte : on les appelle respectivement «croûte ferrugineuse», «croûte siliceuse», «croûte phosphatée» ou «croûte gypseuse».

Spanish

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Record 6 2005-04-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geochemistry
DEF

Gravel, rock, soil, or alluvium cemented with soluble salts of sodium in the nitrate deposits of the Atacama Desert of northern Chile and Peru; it contains sodium nitrate..., potassium nitrate..., sodium iodate...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géochimie
DEF

Croûte de nitrate de sodium naturel impur.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Geoquímica
DEF

Nitrato de sodio natural.

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Record 7 2003-07-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geology
DEF

A name specially developed in the digging of auriferous placers, and applied to the layers of gravel which are usually present a few feet below the surface and cemented by limonite...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géologie

Spanish

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Record 8 1999-06-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geology
DEF

A natural residual concentration of wind-polished, closely packed pebbles, boulders, gravel, and other rock fragments, mantling a desert surface(such as an area of reg) where wind action and sheetwash have removed all smaller particles, and usually protecting the underlying finer-grained material from further deflation. The fragments commonly are cemented by mineral matter.

OBS

The term "desert crust" is also synonymous of desert varnish, therefore should be used cautiously.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géologie
CONT

La formation de «regs», c'est-à-dire de vastes plaines sur lesquelles, le sable étant enlevé, il ne reste que des «cailloux» trop gros pour être emportés. Si ces cailloux sont très rapprochés et pas trop saillants, on a un pavage de déflation.

Key term(s)
  • pavé du désert

Spanish

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