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English translation: affected by micro-karstification

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Italian term or phrase:	microincarsito
English translation:	affected by micro-karstification
Entered by:	giorgioten

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05:27 Jun 28, 2011

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Italian term or phrase: microincarsito

CALCARE ORGANOGENO BEIGE: Si tratta di un calcare organogeno e fossilifero, a grana medio-grossa tale da apparire localmente un areanaria, ha un colore generalmente beige. E' frequentemente microincarsito e interessato da un grado di fratturazione e alterazione elevato. Presenta resistenza generalmente bassa.

giorgioten KudoZ activity Questions: 204 (1 open) (12 without valid answers) Answers: 113 Italy
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affected by micro-karstification

Explanation:
The reference is to "carsismo" or karst. "Affected by" because I don't think you can say "karstificated" in English

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carsismo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karst

http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=micro-ka...

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James (Jim) Davis
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Local time: 12:11

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micro-karstified/microkarstified

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affected by micro-karstification

James (Jim) Davis

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affected by micro-karstification

James (Jim) Davis
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Local time: 12:11
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micro-karstified/microkarstified

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There aren't a lot of googles for the UK and US spellings of micro-karstified/microkarstified but they come from encouragingly scientific sources.

Giles Watson
Local time: 12:11
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