SUGGESTIONS AUX TRADUCTEURS Dated GEOLOGICAL TIME SCALE
p. XIV Holocen Epoch --> Holcene Epoch
Dated GEOLOGICAL TIME SCALE (p. XI should be presented before p. X)
p. XVI In English:
SERIE --> SERIES
CENOZOÏC --> CENOZOIC
Add LOWER, MIDDLE and UPPER Series to DEVONIAN System
In French:
DINANTIAN --> DINANTIEN
p. 305 à ajouter : à la descente adv., downhole (while
lowering into the wellbore).
abattage n.m.,
1. breaking down, blasting, rock blasting ; 2. stoping, breaking, ore extraction,
winning, working ;
à ajouter
: abattement n.m., 1. depletion, lowering ; loss (of flux) ; 2. control,
abatement (reducing level of pollution).
p. 305 à ajouter : accidents siliceux, n.m.pl., siliceous concretions.
p. 307 affleurement n.m. outcrop, exposure [efface “outcropping”]
p. 308 aggloméré adj., agglomerated, conglomerated ;
sintered (ore).
p. 309 alcalinité, alkalinity [remplace “alcalinity”]
p. 311 amortissement de la houle, wave damping [remplace : dumping]
p. 314 apport n.m., supply, input, drift (sédim.)
p. 315 a. à chailles, chert-bearing clay (cf. Oxford Clay);
p. 317 assimilation n.f., assimilation ; a. magmatique (des roches
encaissantes), magmatic stoping
p. 321 bas de plage, shoreface, lower beach, beach face ;
basalte picritique
n.m., picritic basalt, oceanite ;
p. 321 barrière protectrice ouvragée, engineered barrier
(nuclear waste)
bas de
plage, shoreface, lower beach, beach face
bassin hydrogéologique
n.m., groundwater b.;
b. hydrographique
n.m., drainage b., hydrographic b., catchment b. (cf. watershed in American
usage) ;
b. hydrologique
n.m., drainage basin;
p. 327 à ajouter : bure n.m., staple, staple pit, internal
shaft (mining)
p. 329 Calpionelles, n.f.pl., Calpionellidae, calpionellids.
p. 329 à ajouter : canal sofar n.m., SOFAR channel (minimum
acoustic velocity zone in oceans)
p. 330 à ajouter : captage n.m., 1. catchment works, 2. impounding,
harnessing, intake.
captation d’eau,
water harnessing
p. 343 couche d’ozone, ozone layer
couche repère,
marker bed [remplace : “marked”]
p. 344 c. de point à c.-de-poing
p. 345 Crétacé 1. adj. : Cretaceous, chalk-bearing;.
2. n. : Cretaceous (period), Chalk period.
p. 350 décharge n.f., 1. waste disposal, landfill ; 2. dumpsite,
disposal site
p. 353 dérive littorale n.f., longshore drift, littoral drift
[efface: “beach drift”]
descente n.f.,
descent [remplace: “descente“)
p. 354 déshydraté, dessicated, dehydrated.
desquamation (des
roches), n.f., desquamation, peeling, flaking, spalling. [efface : «
exfoliation » et « d. en écailles, exfoliation »]
p. 355 diagraphie différée, wireline logging ;
p. 356 diffractométrie n.f., diffractometry ; d. aux rayons-X,
X-ray (powder) diffraction.
*d. d’extrusion, protrusive dome [cf. dôme]
p. 360 écart type *(better : erreur type), standard error ;
é.-type n.m., standard deviation
p. 361 écoulement massique, mass flow ; é.
turbulent, turbulent flow ; é. visqueux, viscous flow ;
p. 363 emboîté adj., nested, channelled, cut-and-filled;
p. 364 grain de quartz é-luisant, blunt shining quartz grain
p. 365 ensellement, axial trough [remplace “axial through”]
[efface: “pli d’e., drag fold”]
enrochement n.m.,
rip rap, rock fill ; hard coastal defence structure (protected with rip-rap)
p. 370 exfoliation n.f., exfoliation, scaling, sheeting.
p. 372 faille conforme, conformable f. [efface “dip f.”]
f. d’effondrement,
dip-slip f., downthrow f. ;
f. synthétique,
synthetic fault ;
p. 377 de fond de trou adj., downhole (at hole bottom)
p. 378 formation de glace, ice formation, ice accretion, icing ; ground
ice, aufeis ;
p. 381 galerie en impasse, dumb drift
à ajouter
: ganivelle n.f., dune fence
gaz d’origine anthropogène,
anthropogenic gases ;
p. 384 g. de charbon, coalfield, coal deposit [remplace : measure]
p. 386 glauconie (petro.) n.f., glauconite, green earth, glaucony
(association of clay minerals rich in ferric iron, forming a sedimentary
facies).
glauconite (minéral.)
n.f., glauconite (iron-rich green authigenic mineral belonging to the mica
group)
p. 391 habitus (minér.) n.m., habit, mineral habit. [efface
: “habitus“ en anglais]
p. 398 indicatrice ( ou dromochronique) (géoph.) n.f., time-distance
curve, travel-time curve, first-break plot.
p. 399 à ajouter : insolation n.f., insolation (incoming
solar radiation)
installation de
stockage des déchets nucléaires, nuclear waste repository ;
p. 403 jeu n.m., 1. fault displacement ; faulting ; 2. play (promising
zone for oil and gas prospecting).
p. 406 lame minéralogique auxiliaire, accessory plate (for
polarising microscope) ;
p. 409 limite de rupture, breaking strength [remplace : “strenght”]
;
limon n.m., 1. loam,
silt (soil sci. & sedim.) ; 2. ooze, mud, slime, sludge (hydrol. &
mines)
limoneux adj., 1. loamy,
silty (soil sci. & sedim.) ; 2. slimy (hydrol. & mines)
p. 414 maquis n.m., maquis (landscape and scrub on poor siliceous
soil in Mediterranean climate; macchia in Italian).
*marbrière
n.f., marble quarry; industrie m., m. industry.
p. 415 marée noire, oil slick ;
marge
n.f., margin ; m. active, active m. ; m. continentale, continental m
; m. convergente, convergent plate m., destructive plate m. ; m. coulissante,
transcurrent plate boundary, conservative
plate boundary ; m. de plaque en subduction, destructive plate m. ;
m. de plaque lithosphérique en divergence,
spreading plate m., constructive plate
m. ; m. formé par accrétion, accretional m., constructive plate
m., divergent plate boundary ; m. glaciaire, ice m. ; m.
passive, passive
m..
[efface «
écoulement en m. » cf. écoulement massique
voir sous-entrée p. 361]
p. 416 mécanique des sols n.f., soil mechanics.
p. 418 m. d’enfouissement , burial m., load m., static m. (without
deformation) [efface regional m.] ; m. dynamique, dynamometamorphism
[efface : dynamothermal m.] ; m. général dynamothermique,
dynamothermal m., regional m. (in orogenic belts) ; [efface: load m.]
[efface : m. thermodynamique, thermodynamic m.]
p. 420 m. électronique à balayage (MEB), scanning electron
m.
p. 423 modélisation informatique, computer modelling (GB);
computer modeling (US)
mofette n.f., 1.
mofette, damp, afterdamp (foul mine gas); 2. fumarolic gas rich in carbon
dioxide
môle n.m.,
1. mole, breakwater; 2. horst, uplift block (tect.); [efface: (host)]
p. 425 à ajouter : moufette (mines) n.f., choke damp.
p. 427 naledj n.m. (pl. naledi), pingo, hydrolaccolith, aufeishügel
(dome-shaped hill developed due to formation of ice lenses in flooded alluvial
plains); cf. icing
nappe captive,
confined groundwater, piestic groundwater, artesian water-body ;
n. libre, unconfined
groundwater, free groundwater, free water-table ;
n. perchée,
perched groundwater, perched water-table ;
n. pétrolifère,
oil pool, oil accumulation ;
n. phréatique,
shallow ground-water, phreatic water ; [efface : “phreatic water table”]
n. souterraine,
groundwater, groundwater body, groundwater sheet ;
n. superficielle,
surface water-table ;
n. de recouvrement,
allochthonous sheet, overlapping sheet.
nébulosité
(météo), n.f. cloudiness.
néanderthalien
n.m. et adj., Neanderthal Man, Neandertaler.
p. 432 orbicule, spherolith, orb.
p. 434 à ajouter : ouvrage de défense cotière,
coastal defence structure.
p. 436 à ajouter : patrie n.f., root zone (of a nappe).
p. 440 phyllite n.f., phyllosilicate, sheet-silicate.
p. 441 picrite n.f., picrite (ultramafic coarse-grained rock rich
in olivine) [efface: ultrabasic lava]
pierre de taille
n.f., freestone ;
p. 442 Pithécanthrope (pal.) n.m., Pithecanthropine.
p. 444 pli-faille, stretch thrust, broken fold, disrupted fold ;
p. replissé,
refolded f. [remplace: “replissed f.”]
p. 445 polarité normale, normal polarity, normal
field (geomagnetic) ; [remplace : standart”]
p. orogénique,
orogenic migration ;
p. stratigraphique,
stratigraphic younging ;
p. tectonique,
tectonic transport (direction).
pôle
eulérien n.m., spreading pole, pole of rotation, Euler pole (tect.)
p. 448 profil sismique vertical (PSV), vertical seismic
profile (VSP) ;
p. 452 quartzique adj., quartz-bearing, quartz-, [efface : “quartz-rich,
quartzose”]
rabotage
glaciaire n.m., subglacial planing [remplace : “subglacial planning]
p. 454 à ajouter : rechargement n.m., replenishment
(of a beach)
rechauffement
(climatique) à rechauffement de la planète n.m., global warming
(cf. greenhouse effect).
p. 456 rejeu de faille n.m., fault reactivation [efface “recurrent
faulting] ; playback (in geophysics).
renversement (de
terrain), overturning [efface “reversal”]
p. 457 résistance au foisonnement, punching strength [remplace
: “strenght”]
p. 458 revêtement argileux, n.m. clayskin, cutan [efface : “v.t.
to fuse (stereoscopy)”]
p. 459 roche éruptive, eruptive rock [efface: “igneous rock”]
p. 460 *r. verte, greenstone [cf. roche]
masse rocheuse,
rock mass.
rouleau (de plage)
n.m., beachcomber, roller (breaking wave).
p. 463 schistosité de crénulation, strain-slip cleavage,
false cleavage, pseudocleavage ;
p. 464 séisme [efface : “seism- is a prefix”]
semelle (tectonique),
thrust sole [efface : “sole thrust”]
sépiolite
n.f., sepiolite, meerschaum (hydrated magnesium silicate, fibrous clay mineral
similar to playgorskite and attapulgite)
p. 465 sidérolitique, sidérolithique n.m. red clay with
ferruginous concretions
formed
as weathering residue of Tertiary limestones.
silex n.m., flint,
flintstone [efface: “chert, silex”]
p. 466 Silicoflagellés n.f.pl., Silicoflagellata, silicoflagellates.
p. 467 sol gris désertique, sierozem, grey desert soil ;
solifluxion [efface
variante : solifluction]
p. 468 à ajouter : soupape n.f., bailer (drilling)
substilling subsoil
tillage
p. 471 stockage des déchets, waste storage
à ajouter
: stot n.m., pillar, crown pillar (mining)
p. 473 suffosion n.f., suffosion (undermining of fine-grained material,
leading to subsidence, mud volcanoes, etc.).
*[cf. système]
s. rhomboédrique, trigonal system.
p. 477 à ajouter : taux de défruitement, extraction
ratio (mining)
tectonique cassante,
faulting t., brittle t. ; t. coulissante, wrench tectonics
p. 478 teneur volumique, volumetric content [remplace : “volumic content”]
p. 479 de tête de puits adv., uphole (while coming up the wellbore)
p. 482 à ajouter : traçage n.m., driving (mining)
p. 487 vase n.f., mire, mud, ooze ; silt, slime, sludge (hydrol.)
vaseux adj., muddy,
silty ; slimy.
versant n.m., 1.
slope, hillslope, drainage area, catchment; 2 side, limb, flank (tect.))
p. 493 ATR --> TRM thermoremanent magnetization
p. 494 ELF extremely low frequency (replace frequence)
EM
electron microscope (replace electronic microsoft)
p. 496 SMOW Standard Mean Ocean Water (replace standart)
SSS
Standard Stratigraphic Scale (replace standart)
WWSSN
World Wide Standard Seismograph Network
réseau mondial des stations sismiques uniformes
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