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German term or phrase:
Horizont
English translation:
horizon, layer
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claudiocambon
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Horizont
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This term crops up a number of times in my document about Afghan Cretaceous geology, most interestingly when it talks about a Seeigelhorizont. A Tagarin-Horizont is also mentioned once. Is this best translated simply as zone or level? TIA?
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horizon
I don't know anything about geology, but here's what Google came up with:
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http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=%22limestone+horizon%22&aq=f&aqi=&oq=&fp=1c443ffcb5a5cce1
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makhno
: I think it's OK.
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Thanks makhno.
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Johanna Timm, PhD
: or layer//see reference below
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Thanks Johanna. But wouldn't layer be Schicht?
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Rolf Keiser
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Thanks.
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Kim Metzger
: A layer of rock with a particular composition http://www.wordwebonline.com/en/GEOLOGICALHORIZON
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Thanks Kim.
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Brita Fiess (X)
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Thanks Brita.
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Johanna Timm, PhD
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Reference:
Horizon
Soil Horizons (layers): Soil is made up of distinct horizontal layers; these layers are called horizons. They range from rich, organic upper layers (humus and topsoil) to underlying rocky layers ( subsoil, regolith and bedrock).
http://www.zoomstore.com/geology/soil/
http://www.zoomstore.com/geology/soil/
Discussion
"Die wichstigsten Kalkenhorizonte, wie z.B. der karbonatische Inoceramenhorizont, zeichnen sich durch eine gewisse Konstanz aus und erleichtern dadurch die lithologische Korrelation der Profile."
Inoceramus is a faunal genus.