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IMBRICATION [7 records]

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Record 1 2024-07-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surgery
  • The Stomach
CONT

Gastric plication functions on the principal of folding the stomach into itself and using sutures, or stitches, to reduce [its] total volume, while gastric sleeve helps with weight loss by removing a part of your stomach and stapling the rest of it closed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chirurgie
  • Estomac

Spanish

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Record 2 2011-05-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tectonics
DEF

The overlapping arrangement of thrust sheets in an imbricate structure.

CONT

The two-sided fold-thrust belt at Caswell Sound suggests that loading was accomplished via the tectonic imbrication of thrust sheets, possibly during accretion of the arc to the paleo-Pacific margin of Gondwana.

OBS

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

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tectonique
CONT

[…] les géologues ont pu mettre en évidence un écaillage tectonique de la plaque européenne (croûte continentale) avec chevauchement des écailles entraînant un approfondissement du Moho.

CONT

Le style tectonique affectant la série post-varique des Alpes Bergamasques est composé de décollements accompagnés d'un écaillage intercutané; affectant cette fois l'ensemble du Verrucano, du Werfénien et du Virglorien sous la série Ladinien-Norien-Lias [...]

OBS

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

Spanish

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Record 3 2010-12-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
  • Oceanography
CONT

Shell imbrication indicates active currents, possibly in a beach or coastal setting.

OBS

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

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
  • Océanographie
OBS

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

Spanish

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Record 4 2010-11-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geology
  • Hydrology and Hydrography
DEF

The formation of an imbricate structure.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géologie
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie
CONT

[...] l'imbrication résulte du fait que, parmi les galets aplatis d'une dimension déterminée, ceux qui sont inclinés vers l'aval sont le moins facilement mis en mouvement par le courant; un dépôt résiduel doit donc comporter une majorité de galets orientés de cette façon.

PHR

Imbrication des galets.

Spanish

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Record 5 2009-09-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tectonics
DEF

A ... cleavage in which the cleavage planes are spaced at regular intervals and separated by zones known as microlithons.

CONT

Spaced cleavage generally refers to discrete cleavage planes visible to the naked eye.

CONT

Spaced cleavage on the limbs of major folds also formed by dissolution. This is shown by(1) the presence of insoluble residues on the cleavage surfaces,(2) imbrication of insoluble chert nodules that indicates tens of percent shortening parallel to bedding,(3) deflection of cleavage away from strain shadows protected by chert nodules and toward places where the nodules have been telescoped, and(4) offsets of bedding at bedding-cleavage intersection that resulted from removal of limestone by dissolution along the cleavage surfaces.

OBS

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

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tectonique
CONT

Dans les roches carbonatées assez pures, on observe plutôt un clivage espacé [...]

OBS

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

Spanish

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Record 6 1977-06-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[Brachiopods of the] subfamily Hespororthinae(...) [have] strong concentric imbrication not developed, [the] apical plate or [the] deltidium and [the] antigydium [are] sporadically developed; [the] dorsal mantle canal system [is] digitate. L. Ord.-U. Sil.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[Les Brachiopodes de la] sous-famille des Hesperorthinae (...) [ont des] brachiophores plus longs que chez les "Orthinae", [et] parfois des restes de deltidium et de chilidium.

Spanish

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Record 7 1977-06-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[Brachiopods of the] subfamily Glyptorthinae(...) [are] costate to costellate, with strong concentric imbrication disposed as frills or even drawn out as spines; [the] delthyrium and notothyrium [are] open, [the] dorsal mantle canal system [is] digitate. L. Ord.-U. Sil.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[Les brachiopodes de la] sous-famille des Glyptorthinae (...) [ont une] Surface externe rugueuse.

Spanish

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