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FRACTURE HORIZONTALE [3 records]

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Record 1 2021-07-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
CONT

When sufficient hydraulic pressure is applied through the wellbore against a particular formation, the formation rock fractures along the plane perpendicular to the direction of the least principal stress. A horizontal fracture will be created if fracture pressure is greater than overburden pressure; a vertical fracture will occur if overburden pressure is greater.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole

Spanish

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Record 2 2010-02-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mountain Sports
CONT

Rock has two distinct features, faces and cracks. Faces are unbroken slabs of rock. Cracks split these slabs in two.

CONT

Cracks vary in size from seams to chimneys. They are classified by the techniques used to climb them. Seams are so small you can't get your fingers in them; tips take only your fingertips; next is finger cracks, off-fingers, hand cracks, off-hands, fist cracks, off-widths, squeeze chimneys, and chimneys.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de montagne
DEF

Fracture de rocher, verticale, horizontale, ou oblique, dont se sert le grimpeur pour progresser.

CONT

Les fissures correspondent à des lignes de fracturation de la roche; selon leur largeur, de quelques millimètres à un mètre environ, les grimpeurs les appellent fissures à doigts, fissures à coincements, fissures larges, fissures-cheminées, cheminées.

CONT

La technique de la protection [...] nécessite une observation attentive du rocher pour déceler fissures, trous, bracelets du rocher qui vont fournir un emplacement pour un piton, un coinceur, une cordelette.

Spanish

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Record 3 1992-09-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radiography (Medicine)
  • Musculoskeletal System
DEF

Angle of a femoral neck fracture in reference to a horizontal line. [From BORTH, 1990, p. 73.]

French

Domaine(s)
  • Radiographie (Médecine)
  • Appareil locomoteur (Médecine)
DEF

Angle formé par le trait d’une fracture du col fémoral et une ligne horizontale.

Spanish

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