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English-Russian dictionary of geology. 2011.
crustal block
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crustal plate — Geol. a large block or tabular section of the lithosphere that reacts to tectonic forces as a unit and moves as such. Also called plate. * * * … Universalium
crustal plate — noun a rigid layer of the Earth s crust that is believed to drift slowly • Syn: ↑plate • Hypernyms: ↑crust, ↑Earth s crust * * * Geol. a large block or tabular section of the lithosphere that reacts to tectonic forces as a unit and moves as such … Useful english dictionary
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Smartville Block — The Smartville Block, also called the Smartville Complex or Smartville Intrusive Complex, is a geologic zone in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains in California. Its eastern margin generally defines the gold bearing veins of the Mother… … Wikipedia
fault block — A displaced crustal unit, formed during block faulting, that is bounded by faults, either completely or in part, and behaves as a coherent unit during tectonic activity. SW & GG … Glossary of landform and geologic terms
Olympic-Wallowa Lineament — Location of the Olympic Wallowa Lineament. Is the OWL an optical illusion? The Olympic Wallowa lineament (OWL) – first reported by cartographer Erwin Raisz in 1945 [1] on a relief map of the continental United States – is a physiographic feature… … Wikipedia
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Terrane — A terrane in geology is a fragment of crustal material formed on, or broken off from, one tectonic plate and accreted sutured to crust lying on another plate. The crustal block or fragment preserves its own distinctive geologic history, which is… … Wikipedia
Zimbabwe craton — The Zimbabwe craton is an example of Early Archaean lithology dating back to 3.5 Gigaannum Ga. in the southern African nation of Zimbabwe [Wilson, J.F., Nesbitt, R.W., Fanning, C.M., 1995. Zircon geochronology of Archaean felsic sequences in the… … Wikipedia
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