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Llanuras terciarias

English translation: Tertiary plains

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Spanish term or phrase:llanuras terciarias
English translation:Tertiary plains
Entered by: Charles Davis

12:02 Jan 28, 2015
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Forestry / Wood / Timber
Spanish term or phrase: Llanuras terciarias
Necesito ayuda con este término: "Llanuras terciarias".

Esta es la oración completa: La zona esta localizada en la comarca natural del Campo de Calatrava, unidad de transición hacia llanuras Terciarias.

El texto se trata de la construcción de un aeropuerto y acá habla de la zona donde quieren construirlo.

Gracias!!!
Natalí Felcaro
Argentina
Local time: 00:00
Tertiary plains
Explanation:
I can't see any reason not to do this literally. It's a perfectly standard term in English:

https://www.google.es/search?num=100&q="tertiary plains"&oq=...

Tertiary should have a initial capital letter in English because it's the name of a geological period. It's actually a term that no longer has official status in geology, but it's still widely used:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tertiary
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Charles Davis
Spain
Local time: 05:00
Grading comment
Coincido :)
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +3Tertiary plains
Charles Davis
3Plains with tertiary forest cover
Ana Vozone


  

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35 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
Tertiary plains


Explanation:
I can't see any reason not to do this literally. It's a perfectly standard term in English:

https://www.google.es/search?num=100&q="tertiary plains"&oq=...

Tertiary should have a initial capital letter in English because it's the name of a geological period. It's actually a term that no longer has official status in geology, but it's still widely used:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tertiary

Charles Davis
Spain
Local time: 05:00
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 40
Grading comment
Coincido :)

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  MPGS: :-)
2 hrs
  -> Thanks, MPGS :)
agree  neilmac
3 hrs
  -> Thanks, Neil :)
agree  Muriel Vasconcellos
17 hrs
  -> Thanks, Muriel :)
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35 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
Plains with tertiary forest cover


Explanation:
Tertiary designates a period
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Era_Cenozoica



Example sentence(s):
  • has been farmed over for two centuries, although the less fertile and more forested parts have in many cases reverted to secondary or tertiary forest cover.
  • The Juma River is reasonably densely settled (from there to Manaus) so there is only tertiary forest cover (scrub jungle) hence no large wild animals but the area
Ana Vozone
Local time: 04:00
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Charles Davis: Why forest cover? The Campo de Calatrava is pretty bare!
5 mins
  -> You are right, Charles.
neutral  Luis Jarque: In addition, the airport-construction site in qestion may not even have a forest cover whatsoever, no? The example sentences you used focuses on wildlife habitat/agriculture where the presence of a forest cover is relevant to the text.
1 hr
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