English: BossPortuguese translation: protuberância 
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Science - Geology / geology | | English term or phrase: Boss | | An igneous intrusion of cylindrical form, less than 100km2 in area; otherwise like a batholith. |
| | | protuberância | Explanation:
n. - bulto, protuberancia, prominencia redondeada ...
www.answers.com/topic/boss
protuberancia (boss, bulge, knob, outgrowth, projection, prominence, prominency, promontory, protuberance, swelling), pedazo (bit, Cantel, chunk, end, hunk, ...
www.websters-online-dictionary.com/definition/Nub
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 Claudio Mazotti
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| boss protuberância
Explanation:
n. - bulto, protuberancia, prominencia redondeada ...
www.answers.com/topic/boss
protuberancia (boss, bulge, knob, outgrowth, projection, prominence, prominency, promontory, protuberance, swelling), pedazo (bit, Cantel, chunk, end, hunk, ...
www.websters-online-dictionary.com/definition/Nub
| Claudio Mazotti
Brazil
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| boss bossa
Explanation:
843 - Bossa
boss; amas; culot boss; stock Stock
Massa de rochas plutónicas, se forma arredondada, no plano, de dimensões relativamente pequenas. Lembra um batólito de tamanho reduzido. O mesmo que "domo eruptivo".
http://www.dct.fct.unl.pt/GGeo/GG831-863.html
Saliência ou bossa convexa do embasamento formada por abrasão glacial, estriada em toda a sua volta. Dorso de baleia em granito, rio Tietê, Salto, SP. ...
www.igc.usp.br/glacial/glossario.htm
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Note added at 1 hr (2006-10-17 16:29:22 GMT)
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BATÓLITO
Grande massa plutônica que apresenta uma exposição com mais de 100 km² e constituída por rochas com granulação média a grosseira e composição granítica, granodiorítica, e quartzo monzonítica. Quando inferior a 100 km² denomina-se stock e bossa quando circular.
www.mineropar.pr.gov.br/modules/glossario/conteudo.php?cont...
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