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CHATTERING FRACTURE [1 record]

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Record 1 1991-04-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geology
DEF

A crescentic mark in the form of a hyperbolic crack, of larger size ... than a chattermark; it is convex toward the direction from which the ice moved [...] and consists in a single fracture without removal of any rock.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géologie
CONT

La pression d'un bloc morainique entraîné à la base du glacier se manifeste sur le socle rocheux par l'apparition d'une première cassure, à concavité tournée vers l'aval, ensuite d'une seconde, et ainsi de suite, jusqu'au relâchement de l'impact cadencé. Ainsi naît le train de fracture de broutage [...]

Spanish

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