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cerros testigos

English translation: outliers

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Spanish term or phrase:cerros testigos
English translation:outliers
Entered by: Hazel Whiteley

18:14 Nov 22, 2004
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Science - Geology / Geomorphology
Spanish term or phrase: cerros testigos
Por lo visto hay unos famosos en Guadalajara, España, y este texto define un poco lo que son:

"Están definidas por grandes llanuras estructurales formadas por rocas cristalinas que se han hundido y rellenado posteriormente de materiales blandos, muchas veces cubiertos por capas de rocas más duras. Comportan formaciones sobretodo detríticas con conglomerados y areniscas, arcillas y esquistos en alternancia.

Los relieves se organizan en función del dispositivo estructural, pueden distinguirse las regiones con estratos horizontales y aquellas en que los estratos han basculado o se han ondulado.

Las series horizontales protegidas por una capa superior resistente origina mesas o páramos que son desmantelados por las redes fluviales dando lugar a ***cerros testigos*** o antecerros."

Gracias de antemano
Hazel Whiteley
Local time: 17:04
outliers
Explanation:
Cerro testigo o residual (outlier): relieve estructural aislado de una plataforma (a cierta distancia por efecto de la erosión) de estructura tabular o monoclinal, sostenido por una capa resistente, que da testimonio de una antigua extensión de la plataforma.

Remote Sensing - Geology ... NE Ethiopia are in strutural geological interpretation now (Precambrian basement/Mareb granite; Mesozoic ***platform units/Mekele outlier; *** Tertiary trappbasalts ...
www.gfz-potsdam.de/pb1/pg5/research/ projects/geology/strukturgeo_uk.html




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Note added at 27 mins (2004-11-22 18:42:34 GMT)
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http://www.webref.org/geology/o/outlier.htm
outlier
a. An isolated mass or detached group of rocks surrounded by older rocks; e.g., an isolated hill or butte. CF: inlier

http://open-dictionary.com/Outliers
outlier (plural outliers)
(geology) A part of a formation separated from the rest of the formation by erosion.




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Andrés Martínez
Spain
Local time: 18:04
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outliers


Explanation:
Cerro testigo o residual (outlier): relieve estructural aislado de una plataforma (a cierta distancia por efecto de la erosión) de estructura tabular o monoclinal, sostenido por una capa resistente, que da testimonio de una antigua extensión de la plataforma.

Remote Sensing - Geology ... NE Ethiopia are in strutural geological interpretation now (Precambrian basement/Mareb granite; Mesozoic ***platform units/Mekele outlier; *** Tertiary trappbasalts ...
www.gfz-potsdam.de/pb1/pg5/research/ projects/geology/strukturgeo_uk.html




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Note added at 27 mins (2004-11-22 18:42:34 GMT)
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http://www.webref.org/geology/o/outlier.htm
outlier
a. An isolated mass or detached group of rocks surrounded by older rocks; e.g., an isolated hill or butte. CF: inlier

http://open-dictionary.com/Outliers
outlier (plural outliers)
(geology) A part of a formation separated from the rest of the formation by erosion.






Andrés Martínez
Spain
Local time: 18:04
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