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AUTOCHTHONOUS [5 records]

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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2017-04-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Anthropology
DEF

Relating to the people ... that have lived in a place or country since the earliest times.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Anthropologie
DEF

[Se dit d'un peuple dont la] présence dans un lieu déterminé est avérée depuis de nombreuses générations.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Antropología
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Record 2 2013-08-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Peat and Peat Bogs
  • Mining of Organic Materials
  • Solid Fossil Fuels
DEF

[Said of] peat formed in place ...

OBS

... the most minable coals are of this type.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tourbières
  • Exploitation de matières organiques (Mines)
  • Combustibles fossiles solides
CONT

[La tourbe] s'est donc constituée sur place, elle est dite «autochtone».

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Turberas
  • Explotación de materias orgánicas (Minas)
  • Combustibles fósiles sólidos
DEF

Dícese del mineral o de la roca que se han formado en el mismo sitio en el que hoy se encuentran.

CONT

La hulla constituye un ejemplo importante de mineral autóctono, ya que yace en el mismo sitio en que se acumularon las materias vegetales cuya transformación in situ ha originado el carbón mineral.

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Record 3 2012-09-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Epidemiology
DEF

Is said of a disease acquired in the place where the patient is located.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Épidémiologie
DEF

En médecine, se dit d'une infection contractée au lieu même où vit le malade.

Spanish

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Record 4 2004-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geochemistry
  • Hydrology and Hydrography
  • Soil Science
CONT

The hydrogen ion driving the chemical weathering reaction is supplied from external and internal sources. The external source is the acid supplied in bulk precipitation (meteorological input); the internal source stems from various biologic and chemical processes occurring within the soil zone.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géochimie
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie
  • Science du sol
DEF

[Se dit d'un] élément apparaissant à l'intérieur de son milieu naturel de croissance et de production.

CONT

Dans certains cas, il sera difficile, voire impossible, de différencier les origines des modifications autochtones et allochtones lorsque les flux des substances découlant des activités anthropiques dominent les processus naturels à l'intérieur d'un bassin versant.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Geoquímica
  • Hidrología e hidrografía
  • Ciencia del suelo
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Record 5 2004-06-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
CONT

Two Canadian Au skarns ... have similar settings in displaced, rather than autochthonous, cratonal terranes ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
CONT

Deux skarns aurifères du Canada [...] occupent un cadre similaire, mais ils se situent dans des terranes déplacés plutôt que dans des terranes cratoniques autochtones [...]

Spanish

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