French: pierre feuilletée English translation: schist 
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Tech/Engineering - Geology / Types of Rock | | French term or phrase: pierre feuilletée | Immediate context: [On parle] de pierre feuilletée si elle a tendance à s’écailler en lames
(elle referring to la pierre)
This is from a chapter on stone for a text book on materials.
This is the last of my pierre xxxx questions! Promise. |
| | | schist | Explanation:
Includes a whole range of flaky-type rock including slate.
SCHISTE, s. m. ou Pierre feuilletée, (Hist. nat. Minéralog.) schistus, saxum sissile, lapis sissilis, ardoise.
http://portail.atilf.fr/cgi-bin/getobject_?a.110:282./var/ar...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schist
Schist is a metamorphic rock, but not all metamorphic rocks are schists.
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Note added at 58 mins (2007-07-09 15:16:58 GMT)
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Just wanted to say that the problem here is that your terms are not geological but seem to be traditional terms maybe used by masons etc. There's a whole page in (oldish) French Just wanted to say that the problem here is that your terms are not really geological but rather traditional terms maybe used by masons etc. There's a whole page in (oldish) French on this site. http://portail.atilf.fr/cgi-bin/getobject_?a.92:303:24./var/...
Need to find a similar site in English! |
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 Alain Pommet
France
| Note from asker to answererThanks for the helpful info, I had to modify the whole section in the end to make it work in English.
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| foliated rock
Explanation:
my uneducated guess
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Note added at 4 mins (2007-07-09 14:23:17 GMT)
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search for foliate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphic_rock
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Note added at 14 mins (2007-07-09 14:32:48 GMT)
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or perhaps "laminated rock" in this instance?
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Note added at 16 mins (2007-07-09 14:35:19 GMT)
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according to the Wicki link "metamorphic rock" is the generic term here
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| schist
Explanation:
Includes a whole range of flaky-type rock including slate.
SCHISTE, s. m. ou Pierre feuilletée, (Hist. nat. Minéralog.) schistus, saxum sissile, lapis sissilis, ardoise.
http://portail.atilf.fr/cgi-bin/getobject_?a.110:282./var/ar...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schist
Schist is a metamorphic rock, but not all metamorphic rocks are schists.
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Note added at 58 mins (2007-07-09 15:16:58 GMT)
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Just wanted to say that the problem here is that your terms are not geological but seem to be traditional terms maybe used by masons etc. There's a whole page in (oldish) French Just wanted to say that the problem here is that your terms are not really geological but rather traditional terms maybe used by masons etc. There's a whole page in (oldish) French on this site. http://portail.atilf.fr/cgi-bin/getobject_?a.92:303:24./var/...
Need to find a similar site in English!
| Alain Pommet
France
Works in field
Native speaker of:  English
PRO pts in category: 11
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| Note from asker to answerer| Thanks for the helpful info, I had to modify the whole section in the end to make it work in English. |
| Notes to answerer
Asker: Sounds promising... I've also got 'Schiste' elsewhere in the text so I'll just go and check to two sentences don't contradict each other...
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