Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

grano-estrato decreciente

English translation:

grain and bed fining-downward

Added to glossary by kironne
Oct 27, 2008 21:27
16 yrs ago
Spanish term

grano-estrato decreciente

Spanish to English Science Geology geological report
una primera secuencia de 20 m. grano-estrato decreciente compuesta de clastos ........
Proposed translations (English)
3 +2 grain and bed fining-downward
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Oct 29, 2008 00:30: kironne Created KOG entry

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grain and bed fining-downward



RESUMEN
Los afloramientos neopaleozoicos localizados en los alrededores del dique Los Sauces, provincia de La Rioja, constituyen un importante depósito sedimentario ubicado en el margen norte de la cuenca Paganzo. La columna geológica es grano y estrato decreciente, con características distintivas litológicas y paleontológicas que permiten dividir los depósitos...
ABSTRACT
Stratigraphic reconsideration of the late Paleozoic in the surrounding of the Los Sauces dam, La Rioja. Upper Paleozoic outcrops located around to Los Sauces dam, La Rioja Province, constitute an important sedimentary depocenter at the north of Paganzo Basin. The geologic column is grain and bed fining-upward; distinctive lithological features...
http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?pid=S0004-48222007000100...

Vocabulario Inglés-Español
Sedimentología y Estratigrafía
fining: grano-decreciente
fining upward: grano-decreciente hacia arriba
http://satori.geociencias.unam.mx/LGM/vocSed-Estra.pdf

http://www.proz.com/kudoz/spanish_to_english/geology/2759066...


Note from asker:
could you specify if it is fining downward or upward?? Thank you
Peer comment(s):

agree Eileen Banks
3 hrs
agree Enrique Espinosa : I assume that is fining upward because the beds and the grain size are decreasing upward in the secuence, as the rock units usually are described from bottom to top. Coarsening upward would be the opposite and means the grain size is getting bigger
6 hrs
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