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German to English Geology Translation Glossary

German term English translation
Dick- und Dünnbandigkeit der Schieferlagen thin/thick layer of slate slopes
Drachenbändiger dragon tamer
Entered by: Paula Price
Dv Sv
eingerumpft eroded
eingeschuppt tectonically intercalated / imbricated / interthrust
Entered by: Barbara L Pavlik
Einregelung und Streckung re-orientation and stretching
Einschuppung tectonic slice
Einsprengling phenocryst
Eisbruch icefall
Entered by: Arne Marko
Entlösung degassing
Erdfall(gebiet) sinkhole / doline (area, region)
Erdhochmoor folist / drained peat soi
Erdschnitt geological cross-section
Ersatzreibungswinkel equivalent friction angle
Faltung folding
faziell facial or facies
Fehlsondierung non-productive drilling (time)
Feinschichtung fine stratification
Felspanzer rock shell
Felsrippe rock outcrop
Felsstadt cavern city
Felswand rock wall, rockface
Festgesteinaufbruch hard rock breakup
Filterkiesschüttung gravel screen
Firnschneide dividing line like a watershed, only for firn (permanent snow)
Fliess (hier) marl
Flußwaten River wading
Flussand Alluvial sand
Fundschicht find layer
Güte grade
gebankt stratified / bedded
Gebirgshebung orogenesis (mountain-building)
Entered by: Rowan Morrell
gegen Südosten tiefer gesetzt werden lowered toward a southeastern direction
Geländeoberkante (GOK) ground level
Entered by: Sabine Akabayov, PhD
geologische Niveauschnittkarten vertical (geological) cross-sections
geringmächtig thin
geschlitzt slotted
gewachsen native
Gipfelkamm summit crest
Entered by: Barbara L Pavlik
Glimmerschieferzug micaceous metamorphic zone
Entered by: Barbara L Pavlik
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