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acarreo –m. transported material, alluvium, float; transporting, hoisting // acarreo de glaciar m. glacial drift.
Acarreos m. float rock
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Some additional sources:
http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:_BbcqIiyPlkJ:www.rrrplc...
The north-east extension has been traced in outcrop, trenches and float rock. Geological mapping included excavation of twenty test pits and five trenches using a crew of 16-20. In the south-west area, manganese in surface outcrop and in test pits was mapped in detail over a strike length of 550m to the north-west, with an average width of 50m and a probable depth of over 20m, as observed in production pit number one.
Sme Mining Engineering Handbook - Google Books Result
by Howard L. Hartman - 1992 - Technology
... exposure of mineral-bearing rock in place within the limits of a claim.27 Discovery of float rock or other surface indications will not suffice. ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0873351002...
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Arizona State Land Department MINERAL MATERIALS APPLICATIONS ...
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includes cinders, sand, gravel and associated rock, fill-dirt, common clay, disintegrated. granite, boulders and loose float rock, waste rock and materials ... www.land.state.az.us/programs/natural/mineral_pdfs/Mineral_... - Similar pages
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Mineral materials are defined primarily as those commodities used in the construction, building, landscaping, or related industries. A.R.S. § 27-272.A defines mineral materials as follows:
The term, "common mineral products, materials and property", as used in this article, includes cinders, sand, gravel and associated rock, fill-dirt, common clay, disintegrated granite, boulders and loose float rock, waste rock and materials of similar occurrence
commonly used as aggregate, road material rip-rap, ballast, borrow, fill and for similar purposes.
acarreo –m. transported material, alluvium, float; transporting, hoisting // acarreo de glaciar m. glacial drift.
Acarreos m. float rock
-------------------------------------------------- Note added at 27 mins (2007-09-26 05:14:19 GMT) --------------------------------------------------
Some additional sources:
http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:_BbcqIiyPlkJ:www.rrrplc...
The north-east extension has been traced in outcrop, trenches and float rock. Geological mapping included excavation of twenty test pits and five trenches using a crew of 16-20. In the south-west area, manganese in surface outcrop and in test pits was mapped in detail over a strike length of 550m to the north-west, with an average width of 50m and a probable depth of over 20m, as observed in production pit number one.
Sme Mining Engineering Handbook - Google Books Result
by Howard L. Hartman - 1992 - Technology
... exposure of mineral-bearing rock in place within the limits of a claim.27 Discovery of float rock or other surface indications will not suffice. ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0873351002...
[PDF]
Arizona State Land Department MINERAL MATERIALS APPLICATIONS ...
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
includes cinders, sand, gravel and associated rock, fill-dirt, common clay, disintegrated. granite, boulders and loose float rock, waste rock and materials ... www.land.state.az.us/programs/natural/mineral_pdfs/Mineral_... - Similar pages
-------------------------------------------------- Note added at 30 mins (2007-09-26 05:16:39 GMT) --------------------------------------------------
Mineral materials are defined primarily as those commodities used in the construction, building, landscaping, or related industries. A.R.S. § 27-272.A defines mineral materials as follows:
The term, "common mineral products, materials and property", as used in this article, includes cinders, sand, gravel and associated rock, fill-dirt, common clay, disintegrated granite, boulders and loose float rock, waste rock and materials of similar occurrence
commonly used as aggregate, road material rip-rap, ballast, borrow, fill and for similar purposes.
Taña Dalglish Jamaica Local time: 23:06 Works in field Native speaker of: English PRO pts in category: 193
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Thanks for your alacrity. Although not the term used, it helped me find it.
Notes to answerer
Asker: thanks, this is worth investigating
Asker: OK, great - thanks a mil.
Asker: As far a I can see, float rock is a minerological term that refers to loose rock that contains ores and that is near to a vein of rock that might be exploited. Not sure whether it is suitable here. Perhaps loose rock....
Asker: The new dike, called the Quail Creek south dam, was completed in 1990 as
a roller-compacted concrete gravity dam. The dimensions of the dam are
basically the same as the dike, except that it now includes a new impermeable
cutoff trench up to 75 feet deep, which is designed to prevent water
from seeping under the dam. Evidence of the flood is still visible downstream
from the new Quail Creek south dam, where the Shnabkaib Member
was scoured clean of overlying loose bedrock and sediment.
http://geology.utah.gov/online/pdf/pi-63.pdf
It was a bit of a trick question. Acarreos quite rightly in various dictionaries is listed as sediment or float rock. I used loose bedrock in the end, because the text referred to 17C hydraulic engineering practices and to the excavations of the foundations. They were unable to find clean bedrock. It might however be a gravel or pebble layer and I am "still" waiting for a detailed confirmation from the client... who will in time let me know.
Explanation: Creo que cualquiera de estas opciones se adaptaría perfectamente al contexto. Suerte
acarreo nm tranported material of any kind |
transport of ore, supplies, etc. | alluvium |
float, drift | supply |
acarreo acuífero: conglomerate
acarreo fluvial: silt, alluvium | river drift
acarreo fluvioglacial: fluvioglacial drift
acarreo hidráulico sluicing, hydraulicking
acarreo morrénico moraine
acarreos nmpl material carried by a stream, bed
load | drift | float
acarreo de glaciar glacial drift
acarreo del escurrimiento silt runoff
Smartranslators Local time: 06:06 Specializes in field Native speaker of: Spanish PRO pts in category: 683
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks but no, because the text talks about the dam foundations being built on the acarreo (loose bedrock... so far) with a series of piles because they couldn't (in the 17th C) reach the bedrock.
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