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French to English Geology Translation Glossary

French term		English translation
bassins d’effondrement		sunken basins	Angelina Galanska
Entered by: Angelina Galanska
coins de l’assiette du projet		project eastings and northings
"au front de failles"		(deposited) on the brow/face of the thrust faults	Yvonne Gallagher
Entered by: Yvonne Gallagher
AA (ans avant)		BP (years before present)
accident		discontinuity
accident frontal		frontal fault
affaissements de terrain		land collapse
aléa sismique		seismic hazard
alluvions fluviomarines		fluvial-marine alluvium(s)	Yvonne Gallagher
Entered by: Yvonne Gallagher
argiles à silex		clay-with-flints
argiles silteuses molles		soft silty clays
argilo-gréseux		argillaceous sandstone
argilo-phaseux		clay phase
au droit de		directly above / below
AVL		vertical accretion lutites (AVL)
à fleur de paysage		still clinging to the landscape
échantillons de sols remaniés		disturbed soil samples	Brigith Guimarães
Entered by: Brigith Guimarães
éléments		types of material, deposits, elements
épisode continental		continental period
banchées		moulding, formwork
calcaire franc fossilifère		pure fossiliferous limestone
calcaire gréseux		sandy limestone	liz askew
Entered by: liz askew
campagne de terrain		field expedition/field campaign/site investigation
cassetérite, walframite,		casseterite, wolframite
côte absolue du mur at -1500m		absolute elevation/level of the footwall at xxx
côte zéro du sol		zero GL datum
centrale d'acquisition de données sismiques		Seismic Data Acquisition Center
chambre-plage		inspection chamber on the beach
charges pour les peintures		paint extenders
cohérence temporelle calculée.		calculated temporal coherence
colluvion		colluvium, or colluvial deposits
colluvion de pente		slope colluvium
commune de sismicité		<i>commune</i> of seismicity, commune in a seismic zone	EirTranslations
Entered by: EirTranslations
concrétions de magnésie de Nouvelle Calédonie		New Caledonian magnesian concretions
conglomérats pisaires		pisolitic conglomerates	Gwynneth Kably
Entered by: Gwynneth Kably
corniche (boisée du plateau)		(wooded platau) escarpment	Yvonne Gallagher
Entered by: Yvonne Gallagher
cote d'élévation		contour line
couches à Cératites		Ceratite Beds
coulées de terre		mud flow
craquelure		crack

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