English: competentPortuguese translation: Competente 
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English to Portuguese translations [PRO]
Geology / Geology | | English term or phrase: competent | This has really fazed me,
Competent as in Geology
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Sonia |
| | | Competente | Explanation:
É a tradução correcta para Pt-Pt.
Competency of rocks is a relative term, depending to some extent on the surroundings rocks, i.e. a rock in one situation may act as a competent horizon while in other circumstances an identical rock may act incompetently.
Competent bed - a rock layer which, during folding, flexes without appreciable flow or internal shear. In metamorphosed rocks a competent bed will not develop slaty cleavage
The Penguin Dictionary of Geology. |
| Selected response from:
António Ribeiro
Australia
| Note from asker to answererAntonio, I had a laugh when I got the translation, I had been thinking of something very complicated!
Sonia
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| Competente
Explanation:
É a tradução correcta para Pt-Pt.
Competency of rocks is a relative term, depending to some extent on the surroundings rocks, i.e. a rock in one situation may act as a competent horizon while in other circumstances an identical rock may act incompetently.
Competent bed - a rock layer which, during folding, flexes without appreciable flow or internal shear. In metamorphosed rocks a competent bed will not develop slaty cleavage
The Penguin Dictionary of Geology.
| António Ribeiro
Australia
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:  Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 79
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| Note from asker to answererAntonio, I had a laugh when I got the translation, I had been thinking of something very complicated!
Sonia |
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