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Record 1 2010-10-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tectonics
CONT

Difficulties commonly are encountered in achieving uniform grade and quality in crude ore mined from deposits in which iron silicate or carbonate lithofacies are infolded and interlayered with oxide lithofacies.

OBS

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

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tectonique
CONT

Il est habituellement difficile d'obtenir une teneur et une qualité uniformes lorsque le minerai brut provient de gisements dans lesquels les lithofaciès silicatés ou carbonatés sont involutés et interstratifiés avec des lithofaciès oxydés.

OBS

involuté : terme en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la terre.

Spanish

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Record 2 2006-08-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Morphology and General Physiology
  • Plant Biology
DEF

[With] margins inrolled toward the midvein on the upper surfaces, e.g. leaf bades.

OBS

[Said] especially of petals or leaves in bud.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Morphologie et physiologie générale
  • Biologie végétale
DEF

Roulé en dedans en forme de volute.

Spanish

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Record 3 2006-08-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
DEF

[Said of a foraminiferal test where the whorls are] strongly overlapping, in enrolled forms, later whorls [being] completely enclosing earlier ones.

OBS

[Said] of some shells closely coiled so that the axis is obscured.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
CONT

[Parmi les] principaux modes de disposition des loges chez les [Foraminifères] Pluriloculens [on trouve le mode] involute [...]

CONT

Les tests uniloculaires peuvent être [...] involute ou évolute, en hélice ou dans des plans variés [...]

Spanish

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