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FLEXURED ROCK [1 record]

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Record 1 2005-02-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation (General)
  • Petrography
  • Tectonics
OBS

Late Triassic and Early Jurassic rocks, slightly flexured and somewhat disrupted by normal faulting, are well exposed over some 18 km ...

OBS

... flexed rock in which shearing and cataclasis have oriented the crystals into parallel or subparallel alignment.

OBS

Zigzag Flexured Slate. ... Slate is normally very smooth and flat, but tectonic movements of the Earth's crust have bent this slate into tight zigzags.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction (Généralités)
  • Pétrographie
  • Tectonique
OBS

flexure : Déformation accidentelle du relief par mode de plissement, sans qu'il y ait rupture ni chevauchement des couches sédimentaires.

Spanish

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