Login or register (free and only takes a few minutes) to participate in this question.
You will also have access to many other tools and opportunities designed for those who have language-related jobs (or are passionate about them). Participation is free and the site has a strict confidentiality policy.
Spanish to English translations [PRO] Science - Surveying / Mapa Metalogenetico
Spanish term or phrase:Zocalo
En el Oeste del pais, el antimonio del Zocalo parece ligado a intrusiones de esta naturaleza. Asimismo numerosos cuerpos y dikes de andesitas porfiriticas de color obscuro y de fuerte propilitizacion intrusionan terrenos del centre y norte del pais y anteceden frecuentemente a los granites.
Explanation: The initial capital of "Zócalo" suggests at first site that it is a place name. It is true, as Helena says, that there is an "El Zócalo" in Mexico, but it is a public square in Mexico City (the Plaza de la Constitución). It can't refer to this.
I can find no relevant place called "El Zócalo", and so I think that despite the capital it refers to the geological term "zócalo", a synonym of "basamento" or "cratón", defined as "Conjunto de rocas que se sitúa bajo una cobertera sedimentaria y se comporta de manera competente durante la deformación cortical" or "Corteza continental generada durante un ciclo anterior al de la secuencia estratigráfica suprayacente, denominada cobertera". The English equivalent is "basement", though it can also be called "bedrock".
REAL ACADEMIA DE CIENCIAS EXACTAS, FÍSICAS Y NATURALES, Glosario de Geología http://www.ugr.es/~agcasco/personal/rac_geologia/rac.htm#B
"This map shows where the principal rocks are exposed at or near the surface. In detail, the basement (bedrock) is exposed on ridges and mountains. [...]
The deposits have high concentrations of arsenic, and often antimony, as well as gold." http://www.otago.ac.nz/geology/research/environmental_geolog...
"The next structural unit, the Hercynian basement thrust sheets, lies just north of the South Pyrenean Central Unit. Here Hercynian basement thrusts are arranged in an antiformal stack known as the Axial Zone. Steeply dipping faults deform the exposed basement rocks in this area (Munoz, 1992)." http://www.geo.arizona.edu/geo5xx/geo527/Pyrenees/geology.ht...
Zocalo is a place in Mexico and antimony is a base metal. I don't know if this helps at all.
Automatic update in 00:
Answers
1 hr confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
basement / bedrock
Explanation: The initial capital of "Zócalo" suggests at first site that it is a place name. It is true, as Helena says, that there is an "El Zócalo" in Mexico, but it is a public square in Mexico City (the Plaza de la Constitución). It can't refer to this.
I can find no relevant place called "El Zócalo", and so I think that despite the capital it refers to the geological term "zócalo", a synonym of "basamento" or "cratón", defined as "Conjunto de rocas que se sitúa bajo una cobertera sedimentaria y se comporta de manera competente durante la deformación cortical" or "Corteza continental generada durante un ciclo anterior al de la secuencia estratigráfica suprayacente, denominada cobertera". The English equivalent is "basement", though it can also be called "bedrock".
REAL ACADEMIA DE CIENCIAS EXACTAS, FÍSICAS Y NATURALES, Glosario de Geología http://www.ugr.es/~agcasco/personal/rac_geologia/rac.htm#B
"This map shows where the principal rocks are exposed at or near the surface. In detail, the basement (bedrock) is exposed on ridges and mountains. [...]
The deposits have high concentrations of arsenic, and often antimony, as well as gold." http://www.otago.ac.nz/geology/research/environmental_geolog...
"The next structural unit, the Hercynian basement thrust sheets, lies just north of the South Pyrenean Central Unit. Here Hercynian basement thrusts are arranged in an antiformal stack known as the Axial Zone. Steeply dipping faults deform the exposed basement rocks in this area (Munoz, 1992)." http://www.geo.arizona.edu/geo5xx/geo527/Pyrenees/geology.ht...
Charles Davis Local time: 21:00 Native speaker of: English PRO pts in category: 19
The translation workplace 
peer agreement (net): +1
