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ZONE FAILLES [9 records]

Record 1 2010-05-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tectonics
DEF

A fault expressed as an area of numerous small fractures.

CONT

... reductant fluids may be introduced along fault zones to mix and react with uranium-bearing ground waters.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tectonique
DEF

Zone de l'écorce terrestre dans laquelle se manifestent des phénomènes géophysiques reliés aux failles.

CONT

Les [...] failles [...] sont la plupart du temps composées : elles se ramifient et constituent des faisceaux de failles [...] ou [...] des zones de failles.

CONT

Des zones de failles, marquant le contact dunite-harzburgite, localisent les concentrations de chromite d'allure podiforme.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tectónica
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Record 2 2004-11-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geological and Other Scientific Names

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms géologiques ou scientifiques

Spanish

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Record 3 2004-11-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tectonics

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tectonique

Spanish

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Record 4 2003-10-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geological and Other Scientific Names
  • Tectonics
OBS

Russia.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms géologiques ou scientifiques
  • Tectonique
OBS

En Russie.

Spanish

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Record 5 2003-10-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tectonics
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tectonique
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie

Spanish

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Record 6 2003-09-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Metals Mining
  • Tectonics

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mines métalliques
  • Tectonique

Spanish

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Record 7 2003-05-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geology
CONT

This discontinuity marks a zone of wrench faulting, which runs at an oblique angle across the fold axes of the Mackenzie and Franklin mountains towards the Smith Arm of Great Bear Lake ...

Key term(s)
  • wrench faulting zone

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géologie
CONT

Cette discordance marque une zone de failles verticales de décrochement qui croisent obliquement l'axe de plissement des monts Mackenzie et Franklin vers le bras Smith du Grand Lac de l'Ours [...]

Spanish

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Record 8 1999-08-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geographical Names

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms géographiques

Spanish

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Record 9 1993-01-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tectonics
CONT

In the Canadian Cordillera, belts of variably serpentinized ultramafic rocks also commonly occur along major fault zones, such as the Cadwallader fault in the Bridge River district....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tectonique
CONT

(...) il reste possible que toutes les masses ultrabasiques aient formé des intrusions le long de zones de failles majeures, généralement dans des roches volcaniques au cours de la première phase du cycle tectonique.

Spanish

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