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Record 1 2010-04-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plate Tectonics
DEF

... openings or gaps formed by separation of the walls of major strike-slip fault ...

CONT

The Newfoundland Ridge, extending southeastward along what has been interpreted as a mid-Cretaceous leaky transform fault, is considered to be a volcanic edifice built of oceanic crust.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tectonique des plaques

Spanish

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Record 2 2009-04-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
CONT

The "composite massifs" show the association of several plutonic types, granitic or otherwise, systematically arranged, for instance, concentrically or vertically, within the body of the massif.

CONT

A belt of moderate-temperature geothermal activity runs east-west across central Alaska. Chena Hot Springs(CHS) is one of several Interior Alaskan hot springs in or near 55 Ma granites within Paleozoic metamorphic rocks. CHS is located within the CHS pluton, a composite body of quartz diorite, tonalite, granodiorite, and granite of both mid-Cretaceous and Early Tertiary ages.

OBS

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

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
CONT

Les «massifs composites» montrent l'association de plusieurs types plutoniques, granitiques et autres, arrangés systématiquement dans l'ensemble du massif, par exemple concentriquement ou verticalement. L'échelle peut être hectométrique, kilométrique ou plus grande encore.

OBS

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

Spanish

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Record 3 2009-02-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
  • Vulcanology and Seismology
CONT

Basalt volcanic centers in the southern Great Basin are most common in: (1) ring-fracture zones of cauldron complexes; (2) rift grabens that cut cauldron complexes; and (3) rift grabens outside volcanic source areas.

CONT

The rhyolites, which were previously mapped as Eocene, are reinterpreted to be part of a previously unrecognized mid-Cretaceous cauldron subsidence complex.

OBS

cauldron complex; cauldron subsidence complex: terms used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

Key term(s)
  • caldron subsidence complex

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
  • Volcanologie et sismologie
CONT

Les rhyolites, antérieurement cartographiées comme datant de l'Éocène, sont réinterprétées comme faisant partie d'un complexe de cuvettes d'effondrement auparavant non reconnues et qui dateraient du Crétacé moyen.

OBS

complexe formé par subsidence en chaudron : terme en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.

Spanish

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Record 4 2004-07-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chronology
  • Geology
  • Archaeology
CONT

Postorogenic mid-Cretaceous quartz monzonite stock.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chronologie
  • Géologie
  • Archéologie
CONT

Stock de monzonite quartzique postorogénique du Crétacé moyen.

Spanish

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Record 5 2004-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chronology
  • Geology
DEF

Formed or existing at almost the same time.

CONT

Hornblende-biotite-bearing plutons penecontemporaneous with volcanism ...

CONT

Ore deposition was penecontemporaneous with associated intrusive rocks :mid-Cretaceous to Eocene in the North American Cordillera...

CONT

Age of skarn mineralization is mainly ... penecontemporaneous with the associated intrusion.

OBS

e.g. said of a structure or mineral that was formed immediately after deposition of a sediment but before its consolidation into rock.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chronologie
  • Géologie
CONT

[...] minéralisation péné-contemporaine de la sédimentation.

CONT

Le dépôt de la minéralisation a été quasi contemporain de la cristallisation des roches intrusives auxquelles les gîtes sont associés. Ainsi, la minéralisation remonte au Crétacé moyen-Eocène pour ce qui est des skarns de la Cordillère nord-américaine [...]

CONT

En majeure partie, les minéralisations des skarns [...] sont pénécontemporaines de l'intrusion associée.

Spanish

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