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Science - Archaeology / description of rock formations | | Spanish term or phrase: fábrica | Text from Spain, describing the contents of an excavation - here's the context and TIA!
Los clastos son de cuarzo, lidita y roca metamórfica, y el nivel presenta *una fábrica* soportada por la matriz, en donde se detectan abundantes marcas de raíces. |
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Fábrica: Estructuración u orientación mineral conferida a la masa ígnea. Planar: define un plano. Linear: define líneas.
http://www.siemcalsa.com/web/html/glosario_de_terminos_geolo...
Formation: The basic unit for the naming of rocks in stratigraphy: a set of rocks that are or once were horizontally continuous, that share some distinctive feature of lithology, and are large enough to be mapped.
http://www.geotech.org/survey/geotech/dictiona.html#sectF
Clastic rock: A sedimentary rock formed from mineral particles (clasts) that were mechanically transported.
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