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05:35 May 25, 2011
French to English translations [PRO] Tech/Engineering - Geology / geological formations
French term or phrase:terrain metamorphisé
- Des terrains du Briovérien métamorphisés : siltites et
argilites
Explanation: roche métamorphique. Attention, en anglais il faut dire metamorphosed, et non metamorphised.
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It googles pretty nicely...
I think it's better to keep terrain rather than soil. And the passive "metamorhosed" is more accurate than the resultative "metamorphic".
You can also read the wikipedia entry on metamorphic rock. The term "metamorphosed" occurs a few times.
Just curious... Has the client expressed a preference for "terrain" over "terrane" in this context?
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metamorphosed terrains
Explanation: roche métamorphique. Attention, en anglais il faut dire metamorphosed, et non metamorphised.
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It googles pretty nicely...
I think it's better to keep terrain rather than soil. And the passive "metamorhosed" is more accurate than the resultative "metamorphic".
You can also read the wikipedia entry on metamorphic rock. The term "metamorphosed" occurs a few times.
Example sentence(s):
Tectonic significance of isograds in regionally metamorphosed terrains: a study from the precambrian Singhbhum orogenic belt, Eastern India
Two major events within the creationist framework of earth history are capable of producing regionally metamorphosed terrains
Sylvain Lourme Local time: 18:07 Works in field Native speaker of: French PRO pts in category: 8
Brioverien land/terrain which has been metamorphosized
Explanation: I made a first post which I cancelled thinking this was a typo. It was not long before the other psots made me realize that metamorphic existed and was a specific term as described by Sylvain and Silvester.
I cehcked out "metamorhosed" which bugged me a bit, as it is used in this context, but I suspect erroneously as the adjective is indeed metamorphic. Sticking to the same root, I tried "metamorhphized, -ised" and now consider that "metamorphosized" is in fact the right solution, or at leat the one for which in context, there appears to be the greatest consensus.
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A conference document of the Metaphoric Studies Group… hmmmm….
There is “metamorphic” and “metamorphism” about which there is apparently no doubt.
However, there is a little bit of artistic licence with the verb. In the paper, you can find “metamorphise” and “metamorphose”.
Maybe your safest bet is to express it using something other than the past participle of either of the verbs?!
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Er, maybe forget "metamorphosized". Looks like someone did not know what to put so stuck it all in one word. A cop out!
Explanation: Metamorphic Soil
Metamorphic soil is made from the weathering of schist, slate, or gneiss. These are all rocks that were originally sedimentary or igneous, but were transformed by pressure and heat underneath the earth’s surface.
Gneiss is a metamorphic rock that can be made of both igneous and sedimentary materials. Each type of gneiss is named based on its specific mineral composition.
Soil/Landform Unit - Mount Dryden metamorphic hills
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Cadomian and Variscan metamorphic events in the Léon domain (Armorican Massif, France): P-T data and EMP monazite dating
Geological Society of America Special Papers, 2007, 423, p. 267-285,
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Les périodes de volcanisme, de surrection, de plissements, d'intrusions granitiques, de métamorphisme et de dépôts de sédiments lors des différentes phases géologiques ont donné naissance au cours du temps à tous les types de roches: roches sédimentaires ( calcaires, conglomérats, brèches, grés, arkoses, faluns), roches métamorphiques (gneiss, micaschistes, schistes, ardoises, éclogites, …) et magmatiques (granites, rhyolites, ).
Le Massif Armoricain est tout entier édifié sur un socle datant du Précambrien mais la diversité de sa couverture géologique impose de le diviser en trois domaines caractéristiques :
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Also see: ‘Terrane’ is used to describe a fault-bounded tectonic unit of regional extent which possesses a history unlike that of adjacent terranes and is thought to be far-travelled: hence allochthonous, displaced, exotic or suspect terrane. ‘Terrain’ should be employed more generally to describe a region characterized by distinctive geomorphological or geological attributes without implication that it is far-travelled. http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/gsl/publications/author_instructio...
Links for Termium and dictionary.reference webpages are provided as References below.
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"For example, a metamorphosed terrane may bo considered as the record of a wide-reaching physical and chemical change, [...] Terranes found by contact or by contained fragments to be younger than the metamorphosed terrane may be assumed to be younger than other terranes with which they are not in contact, [...]"
Bulletin - United States Geological Survey, Issues 84-86 http://books.google.com/books?id=6SIMAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA109&l...
"The Easton terrane:
The only well metamorphosed terrane of the Western Domain, derived from deep-ocean sands and muds and underlying basaltic ocean floor." http://geomaps.wr.usgs.gov/parks/noca/nocageol5.html
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