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FRACTURE OUVERTE [2 records]

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Record 1 2012-01-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Bones and Joints
DEF

A fracture in which an external wound leads down to the site of the fracture, or fragments of bone protrude through the skin.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Os et articulations
DEF

Variété de fracture dont le foyer communique avec l'extérieur à travers une plaie des parties molles et des téguments.

Key term(s)
  • fracture composée
  • fracture découverte

Spanish

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Record 2 2005-03-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tectonics
CONT

All the varieties [of ironstone] are phosphatic, with phosphate minerals appearing within mud matrix, as sparry replacement cements, and in veinlets and open fractures.

CONT

... the ore constituents were mobilized from formational brines and redeposited in open fractures and cavities.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tectonique
CONT

[...] un filon sera dû à un remplissage de fracture ouverte ou bien à des remplacements de roche préexistante de part et d'autre d'une cassure [...]

CONT

La mise en place de l'uranium dans les fractures du socle correspond à quatre facteurs [...] successifs : source [...] d'uranium [...]; milieu de transport favorable [...]; fractures ouvertes dans les roches du socle compétent; réduction de l'uranium par des sources ascendantes chaudes [...]

CONT

Dans le cas d'une tectonique cassante, les fractures ouvertes sont des lieux de choix pour la mise en place de filons.

Spanish

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