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Spanish translation: sedimentos geológicos aluviales

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16:28 Feb 13, 2012

English to Spanish translations [PRO]
Science - Fisheries / Environmental damage from pollution

English term or phrase: overbank

CONTEXT:

"Due to pollution of the river over decades, significant deposits of heavy metals have built up in the overbank sediments of the basin."

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Spanish translation:sedimentos geológicos aluviales

Explanation:
Hola! los "overbank sediments" son los sedimentos geológicos depositados en el fondo de los ríos. ¡Espero haberte ayudado!

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Gema Pedreda
Local time: 17:22

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sedimentos geológicos aluviales

Gema Pedreda

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(sedimentos de) la vega de río/vega de la cuenca fluvial

Mercedes Marta Moreno

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sedimentos geológicos aluviales

Explanation:
Hola! los "overbank sediments" son los sedimentos geológicos depositados en el fondo de los ríos. ¡Espero haberte ayudado!

Gema Pedreda
Local time: 17:22
Native speaker of:

Galician,

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(sedimentos de) la vega de río/vega de la cuenca fluvial

Explanation:
Yo diría que "overbank" se refiere a la tierra perteneciente a las riberas y bancos de los ríos y más allá; lo que se podría inundar en caso de crecida; la vega del río, no el fondo: en inglés, "floodplain".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overbank

"A causa de la contaminación del río durante décadas, se han formado depósitos considerables de metales pesados en los sedimentos de la vega del río/vega de la cuenca fluvial"

See http://iahs.info/redbooks/a224/iahs_224_0203.pdf

Saludos.

Mercedes Marta Moreno
Local time: 17:22
Native speaker of:

Spanish

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