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French to English Geology Translation Glossary

French term		English translation
masquage–exposition		exposure factor / hiding factor
mètre NGF (Nivellement Général de la France)		m FOD
Mécanique des milieux continus		Continuum mechanics
modification du niveau ou du mode d'ecoulement des eaux ou un rejet		modification to the level or method of water flow ... discharge
module pressiometrique		pressuremeter modulus
moment de renversement		overturning moment	Carlos Segura
Entered by: Carlos Segura
mor ou ranker		mor or ranker
nappe		layer, sheet; nappe alluvial=alluvial layer (not neccessarily involving water or aquifer)
Nappe intra-flandrienne		Flandrian alluvial deposit
néocratonisé		recently cratonized	Sheila Hardie
Entered by: Sheila Hardie
niveau d'équilibre		equilibrium / equilibrium level
non affleurants		non-outcropping
passée		seam
passes de forage		drilling runs
paysagistes		landscape designers	Sarah Bessioud
Entered by: Sarah Bessioud
peu marqué		not very pronounced	Tony M
Entered by: Tony M
piège à fines		fines trap
pierre coquillière		coquina
pierre feuilletée		schist
pieu lanterné		slotted probe
Placer		Placer or placer deposit
plaquette		nugget	Gayle Wallimann
Entered by: Gayle Wallimann
plâtre cuit à mort		dead-burned plaster
plissements (alpins)		folds (alpine)
Poche de gypse antéludien		anteludian gypsum pocket	EirTranslations
Entered by: EirTranslations
pointage géographique		geographical plotting	liz askew
Entered by: liz askew
Pointe Rom		ROM [run of mine] station
Portour Tethysien		Tethys circumference
prime d’émeraude		chromium jadeite	liz askew
Entered by: liz askew
projet de sulfuré profond		Deep sulphides (project)
prospection		exploration
quartz translucide « génie de l’arc en ciel »,		"rainbow spirit" translucent quartz
rares passées argileuses		occasional intercalation of clay(-rich) layers
recouvrement de surface		overburden, topsoil
refoulements horizontaux		horizontal compression
Remontée de nappe		Rise in the water table
roches éruptives		igneous rock
runiforme		jagged
sacroide/saccharoïde		saccharoidal
sape de guerre		military (war) tunnel	Jessica Crockett
Entered by: Jessica Crockett

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