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German to English Geology Translation Glossary

German term English translation
Scholle fault block
Schollenzone (thrust) slice zone
Schotterterrasse gravel flats
Entered by: Klaus Petzel
Schubdehnung shear strain
Schuttquelle filtration spring
Schwarze Raucher Black Smokers
Schwellengebiet rise zone
Seifen- oder Waschgold placer gold
Skelettboden skeleton soil
skelettführend skeletal/skeleton content
Entered by: Louise Mawbey
Sohlrauheit bed roughness
Sonolog sonolog
SP/GR SP/GR - Spontaneous Potential and Natural Gamma Ray Logs
Spaltrhomboeder cleavage/cleaved rhombohedron
Sprengaktionen blasting
Entered by: Teresa Reinhardt
Staufschicht "Stauf" stratum/layer/ bed
Störungskanten fault lines
Entered by: Steffen Walter
Störzone fault zone (geology)
Strömung flow
Strömungsfächer flow fan
Stripeffekt stripping effect
Tafel platform
taubes Gestein dead rock
Teiluntersuchung sub-investigation, partial investigation
tektonisch tiefe Gebirgsteile old(er) rock strata
Terme terms
Tonhorizont clay stratum
Top Träger upper limit of the (target) aquifer
tw treated water
Urgestein (ancient) basement rock(s)
Urstromtal glacial valley, spillway
Verebungsfläche peneplain/erosion surface
Verlehmung und semigespannte Grundwasser-Verhältnisse loaming
verschuppt imbricated / interthrust / tectonically intercalated
Entered by: Barbara L Pavlik
Versteilung steepening
vertont clayey (altered)
Vertonung clay content
vertorft decayed
Vulkanvorkommen volcanic rocks
Wacker Wacker
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