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rocas volcaniclasticas

English translation: volcaniclastic rocks

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Spanish term or phrase:rocas volcaniclásticas
English translation:volcaniclastic rocks
Entered by: Henry Hinds

20:36 Sep 6, 2008
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Science - Geology / sedimentology
Spanish term or phrase: rocas volcaniclasticas
en este articulo se considera la espesa secuencia de rocas volcanicas y volcaniclasticas de edad Miocena aflorantes en el norte de la Precordillera.
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volcaniclastic rocks
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Henry Hinds
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5 +4volcaniclastic rocks
Henry Hinds
4piroclastic rocks
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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +4
volcaniclastic rocks


Explanation:
Results 1 - 10 of about 27,100 for "volcaniclastic rocks

Not hard to find.

Henry Hinds
United States
Local time: 05:03
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 59
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Rachel Fell: + comment...
13 mins
  -> Gracias, Rachel.
agree  KRAT (X)
1 hr
  -> Gracias, Krat.
agree  liz askew: How hard was that?
14 hrs
  -> Gracias, Liz. Not too hard.
agree  Enrique Espinosa: Sí tocayo. Una secuencia volcaniclástica es muy distinta de una piroclástica. Genéticamente son dos cosas muy distintas. Saludos
1 day 10 hrs
  -> Gracias, Tocayo.
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22 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
piroclastic rocks


Explanation:
Another option, slightly more technical.

http://www.akademiai.com/content/ku452060u4348843/
K/Ar dating of miocene piroclastic rocks. in Hungary. – Ann. Géol. Pays. ...
http://biostratigraphy.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.html
Taran area is occupied predominantly by piroclastic rocks and locally ..... recorded in the younger sediments (Early Miocene) of other areas
http://www.cosis.net/abstracts/EGU2007/09378/EGU2007-J-09378...
key tools to study piroclastic rocks: a case ... are relatively young (Upper Miocene) which makes age dating more difficult. Never- ...


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Note added at 23 mins (2008-09-06 21:00:46 GMT)
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Incorporated into the Google querry, "Miccene".

slothm
Local time: 08:03
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Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 65

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  María Leonor Acevedo-Miranda
7 hrs
disagree  bigedsenior: pYroclastic rocks are those 'bombs" thrown out of an eruption and are included in the more general volcaniclastic category
1 day 7 hrs
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