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Spanish term or phrase:praderas pardas
English translation:brown grasslands
Entered by: Valeria Verona
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15:36 Oct 26, 2009
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Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Science - Geology
Spanish term or phrase: praderas pardas
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El horizonte superior es de color pardo a pardo rojizo, textura arenoso franca a gravillosa y fertilidad baja, a veces media (Litosoles, Regosoles y **Praderas Pardas**).

Gracias!
Valeria Verona
Argentina
Local time: 19:35


Summary of answers provided
4 +2bownfields/brownfields lands(US); previously used lands (UK)
Carmen Schultz


Discussion entries: 4





  

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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
bownfields/brownfields lands(US); previously used lands (UK)


Explanation:
A possibility although you don't mention the quality of the soil or land itself. It could be

In the United States city planning jargon, brownfield land (or simply a brownfield) is land previously used for industrial purposes or certain commercial uses. The land may be contaminated by low concentrations of hazardous waste or pollution, and has the potential to be reused once it is cleaned up. Land that is more severely contaminated and has high concentrations of hazardous waste or pollution, such as a Superfund site, does not fall under the brownfield classification. Mothballed brownfields are properties which the owners are not willing to transfer or put to productive reuse.[2]

In the United Kingdom and Australia, the term applies more generally to previously used land


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Note added at 3 hrs (2009-10-26 19:03:01 GMT)
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Another possibility: I may refer to hydromorphic loamy fields(soil) which has a clay content making it 'pardo' in coloration. If it is this, this soil would be productive in some seasons, esp. summer.

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Note added at 3 hrs (2009-10-26 19:10:12 GMT)
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(probably the top of the Plateau on field P6H2C), a sandy/loamy hydromorphic soil with an acceptable penetration resistance (< 3 MPa, hopefully < 2 MPa) to ...
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Carmen Schultz
Local time: 16:35
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Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 16

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agree  Eileen Banks: :)
14 mins
  -> gracias mil ; )

agree  Emma Ratcliffe
2 hrs
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Oct 31, 2009 - Changes made by Valeria Verona:
Created KOG entryKudoZ term => KOG term


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