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DECOLLATION [2 records]

Record 1 2012-01-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Office Machinery
DEF

Disassembling a multi-leaf form.

Key term(s)
  • deleaving

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mécanographie
DEF

Séparation, automatique ou manuelle, des listes d'imprimante en fonction de leur destination.

Spanish

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Record 2 2011-06-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tectonics
DEF

Folding or faulting of sedimentary beds by sliding over the underlying rock.

OBS

[In this] process ... the stronger layers of sedimentary rock are ... folded into linear, regularly spaced folds — alternating anticlines and synclines — and thrust on top of one another.

OBS

décollement: from the French word meaning “ungluing.”

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tectonique
DEF

Dislocation qui tend à suivre un niveau sédimentaire plus ou moins horizontal [...]

CONT

La première phase de déformation se marque par la genèse de structures faillées/plissées inter-cutanées sans vergence préférentielle [...] Ces structures de raccourcissement servent de nucléi aux structures de décollement qui apparaîtront ultérieurement et seront situées au sein des charnières anticlinale et synclinale.

PHR

Niveau, pli de décollement.

Spanish

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