término
English translation: layer
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| 3 +2 | layer / (term) |
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| 3 +1 | post-Jurassic elements |
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peer agreement (net): +1post-Jurassic elements Explanation: Referencia: wordreference.com |
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peer agreement (net): +2layer / (term) Explanation: (I can't find a translation of "término" in the geological sense in wordreference; it gives "element" for "término" in the sense of "elemento gramatical" in linguistics, but nothing for geology.) "Término" in geology, like "termine" in Italian, basically seems to mean layer. References to "términos" generally involve layers in a vertical series: "El término basal puede ser margoso, el término inferior de calizas grainstone con laminación cruzada de surco o cruzada planar. Por encima un término de calizas mudstone a wackestone con rills bioclásticos, ripples de oleaje, lensen, y bioturbación. Por encima laminaciones de algas planares a dómicas. El término superior porosidad fenestral, láminas rotas y grietas de desecación, o bien con porosidad móldica de sales, pliegues enterolíticos, estructuras chicken-wire y tepees, y brechas de cantos planos y de cantos negros." https://rua.ua.es/dspace/bitstream/10045/24475/1/excursion_I... (p. 32). In older (nineteenth-century) geological texts in English, and in a number of texts by French, Italian and Spanish authors in English, "term" is used in a similar way. For example: "The series of strata is so ancient, that even its uppermost and newest term in every country is older than the race of man now existing there" https://archive.org/stream/b22018281_0001#page/10/mode/2up/s... "Upper term [...] Middle term [...] Lower term [...]" https://archive.org/stream/b22018281_0001#page/242/mode/2up/... John Phillips, Treatise on Geology (1837) "beds of rolled pebbles, probably belonging to the lower term of the lacustrine series" https://books.google.es/books?id=CdiUHNUvw7cC&pg=PA28 George Poulett Scrope, The Geology and Extinct Volcanos of Central France (1858), p. 28 "The studied units can be separated into two different terms. The lower term is constituted of red lutites with few intercalations of sandstones. The upper term is less terrigenous than the lower one and corresponds to the evaporite sequence." Ander Guinea, Elisabet Playà, Lluís Rivero and Mahjoub Himi (Barcelona), "Electrical resistivity tomography and induced polarization techniques applied to the identification of gypsum rocks", p. 3. But I'm not finding references to "terms" in geology in texts by modern English-speaking geologists, which makes me doubt whether it's a term (pardon the pun) in current use. It's usefully defined for us in one of the old texts quoted above, Phillips's Treatise: "The rocks composing the crust of the globe are for the most part stratified; but exceptions occur, especially in mountainous countries: the series of strata is commonly definite, or composed of a certain number of simple terms, i.e., layers, each of a particular quality, in every small district; considered with reference to very large districts, it is found that, by grouping together the layers in natural assemblages, the series of these compound terms is also definite" https://archive.org/stream/b22018281_0001#page/12/mode/2up Also here: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:A_Treatise_on_Geology,_v... So I would be inclined to use "layer". I don't think I would use "stratum/strata", because I think that has a more specific sense. And I don't think it's a synonym for unit or formation, since you find references to "term of the unit" or "term of the formation". |
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| Reference: Terminus Reference information: Don't know if the text involves glaciers, but if so: Terminus The lower-most margin, end, or extremity of a glacier. Also called Toe, End or Snout. http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2004/1216/text.html#tz -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 22 hrs (2016-08-21 18:05:16 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- The terminal moraine is deposited at the terminus of a glacier. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zPqbBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA366&lp... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 23 hrs (2016-08-21 18:23:12 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Here it is used in a more hydrological sense: The Jacksonwald Basalt crops out in a syncline near the southern terminus of the Newark Basin (Figure 2 and 3) over 100 km southwest of the Watchung Syncline. https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~polsen/nbcp/olsen_formations_... |
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