Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
calcaire gréseux
English translation:
sandy limestone
Added to glossary by
liz askew
Jan 7, 2013 09:48
11 yrs ago
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French term
France
Industry standard in pharma translation
Native in: English 
Works in: French to English, Italian to English, German to English
calcaire gréseux
French to English
Tech/Engineering
Geology
types of stone
This term appears in a list:
calcaires gréseux
marnes sableuses
grès glauconieux
No further context.
calcaires gréseux
marnes sableuses
grès glauconieux
No further context.
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 +2 | sandy limestone |
liz askew
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| 4 +1 | biocalcarenite |
Nikki Scott-Despaigne
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| 3 +1 | calcarenite or calcareous sandstone |
Bertrand Leduc
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| 4 | gravel containing limestone |
Drmanu49
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Change log
Jan 21, 2013 12:47: liz askew Created KOG entry
Proposed translations
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54 mins
Selected
sandy limestone
slides in soft-rocks coastal slope
www.coe.int/t/dg4/.../activites/.../Murcia_26-27oct09_Maqua...
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27 Oct 2009 – ... composed of Cenomanian chalk overlying glauconitic sands. Below, a thick layer of marls is on top of the sandy limestone of Hennequeville ...
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Ardley Quarry, Fritwell, Oxfordshire - Oxford Conservation ...
www.ocv.org.uk/sites.php?id=94Ardley Quarry lies on Jurassic rocks. The exposures range from the lowest Bathonian Chipping Norton Formation of oolitic limestones, sandy limestones and ...
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Gobertange sandy limestone
www.pierresetmarbres.be/index.php?id=155&L... - Translate this page
Gobertange sandy limestone. Also known as / varieties. Gobertange stone, Bruxellian stone, Calcaire gréseux de Gobertange. Extraction zone. Region of ...
www.coe.int/t/dg4/.../activites/.../Murcia_26-27oct09_Maqua...
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27 Oct 2009 – ... composed of Cenomanian chalk overlying glauconitic sands. Below, a thick layer of marls is on top of the sandy limestone of Hennequeville ...
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Ardley Quarry, Fritwell, Oxfordshire - Oxford Conservation ...
www.ocv.org.uk/sites.php?id=94Ardley Quarry lies on Jurassic rocks. The exposures range from the lowest Bathonian Chipping Norton Formation of oolitic limestones, sandy limestones and ...
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Gobertange sandy limestone
www.pierresetmarbres.be/index.php?id=155&L... - Translate this page
Gobertange sandy limestone. Also known as / varieties. Gobertange stone, Bruxellian stone, Calcaire gréseux de Gobertange. Extraction zone. Region of ...
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Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
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7 mins
Bertrand Leduc
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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United Kingdom
Medical translator and proofreader
Native in: French (Variant: Standard-France) 
Works in: English to French
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calcarenite or calcareous sandstone
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcarenite
http://chc.sbg.ac.at/sri/thesaurus/node.php?id=72
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10 mins
Nikki Scott-Despaigne
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Psychologist, Court-certified legal
Native in: English
Works in: French to English
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4
biocalcarenite
See my reference post then websearch for the English version.
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Calcarenite.
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Calcarenite.
10 mins
gravel containing limestone
www.hutchk12.org/geo/mngeo/page41.html
Glaciers that traveled over western MN will deposit gravel containing limestone and shale. Shale is an unacceptable rock for concrete, asphalt mixtures or as a ...
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or more precisely limestone containing lenses of sand and gravel
books.google.fr/books?id=_wwlAQAAIAAJ
Geological Survey (U.S.) - Science
Aymamon Limestone; very pure chalk in- 190 durated on surface to hard ... clay and limestone containing lenses of sand and gravel as much as 15 m thick.
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in this case lenses of gravel
Glaciers that traveled over western MN will deposit gravel containing limestone and shale. Shale is an unacceptable rock for concrete, asphalt mixtures or as a ...
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Note added at 12 minutes (2013-01-07 10:01:27 GMT)
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or more precisely limestone containing lenses of sand and gravel
books.google.fr/books?id=_wwlAQAAIAAJ
Geological Survey (U.S.) - Science
Aymamon Limestone; very pure chalk in- 190 durated on surface to hard ... clay and limestone containing lenses of sand and gravel as much as 15 m thick.
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in this case lenses of gravel
Reference comments
9 mins
Nikki Scott-Despaigne
Native in English
Psychologist, Court-certified legal
Native in: English
Works in: French to English
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Reference:
calcaire gréeseux = biocalcarénite
http://pedagogie.ac-montpellier.fr/svt/litho/outils.htm
1) Roche faisant effervescence à l'acide : Roche calcaire
g) calcaire contenant des éléments détritiques si présence de débris d'organismes :
calcaire gréseux (=biocalcarénite )
1) Roche faisant effervescence à l'acide : Roche calcaire
g) calcaire contenant des éléments détritiques si présence de débris d'organismes :
calcaire gréseux (=biocalcarénite )
Discussion
calcaire = limestone
grès = sandstone
This is calcareous sandstone. Oops no, the other way round... how do we say that???