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кубические глыбы

English translation: cubic blocks

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Russian term or phrase:	кубические глыбы
English translation:	cubic blocks
Entered by:	Alan Campbell

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13:23 May 22, 2006

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Social Sciences - Archaeology

Russian term or phrase: кубические глыбы

This is a text looking at the Paleolithic in Russia. The full paragraph from which the phrase is taken is as follows:

Уже геолог Г. Е. Щуровский (1878) упоминал в качестве "научных методов раскапывания" съемку плана пещеры, разметку центральной линии, послойное вскрытие отложений участками ("кубическими глыбами") перпендикулярно центральной линии с проведением параллельных разрезов.

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cubic blocks

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GEOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCEФормат файла: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - В виде HTML
Colluvium tends to break into cubic blocks due to orthogonal jointing in the ... through archaeological and geological methods led to evidence that the area ...
csmres.jmu.edu/geollab/2005ProgramAbstracts.pdf