Glossary entry

Portuguese term or phrase:

blocos e matacões

English translation:

blocks and boulders

Added to glossary by Claudio Mazotti
Oct 14, 2008 18:54
15 yrs ago
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Portuguese term

blocos e matacões

Portuguese to English Tech/Engineering Geography
talude com a face coberta de blocos e matacões
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Oct 28, 2008 06:56: Claudio Mazotti Created KOG entry

Oct 28, 2008 06:57: Claudio Mazotti changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/59033">Claudio Mazotti's</a> old entry - "blocos e matacões"" to ""blocks and boulders""

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blocks and boulders

Matacões (boulders) arredondados de granito desenvolvidos por processo de intemperismo com exfoliação esferoidal podem formar campos de boulders quando a ...
www.unb.br/ig/glossario/fig/boulder_exfoliacao_esferoidal.h...

É muito comum encontrar matacões nas áreas basálticas do município de Uberlândia . Os. matacões (boulders) em geral podem ser considerados como grandes ...
www.caminhosdegeografia.ig.ufu.br/include/getdoc.php?id=117...

Uma parte de parque encontra-se coberta por matacões (boulders), rochas arredondadas de baixa altura, que constituem um dos motivos de atracção do parque, ...
www.pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parque_Nacional_de_Joshua_Tree

... com consistência úmida muito friável nos horizontes inferiores, inclusive no B incipiente, apresentando matacões (boulders) em todo o perfil (Quadro 3). ...
www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0100-06832007000500019
&script=sci_arttext

In geology, a boulder is a rock with grain size of usually no less than 256 mm ( 10 inches) diameter. While a boulder may be small enough to move or roll ...
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulder

The block and boulder beds primarily occur around the rim of the basin and in ..... Viewed individually, the sedimentary blocks and boulder beds present a ...
www.creationresearch.org/crsq/articles/36/36_1/haymond.html

But, if so, why should they be called "erratics," as distinguished from the blocks and boulders which are still embedded in the formation? ...
www.wku.edu/~smithch/wallace/S456.htm

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heavy pieces of earth and boulders

I would translate the sentence:

talude com a face coberta de blocos e matacões

slope covered with heavy pieces of earth and boulders

Hope it helps.
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blocks and (huge stone) boulders

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Examples:

Falls: abrupt free fall of loosened blocks or boulders of solid rock Picture ( 38x30, 3.7Kb) · Picture (50x30, 6Kb) Picture (300x197, 20.8Kb) ...
www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/lemke/geomorphology/lecture_outlin...

A Contribution to the Geology and Physical Geography of the Cape ... - [ Traduzir esta página ]A Contribution to the Geology and Physical Geography of the Cape Colony ... and into this blocks and boulders from the quartzite on the one side, ...
www.jgslegacy.lyellcollection.org/cgi/content/abstract/44/1...

Geography 323 -- Geomorphology - [ Traduzir esta página ]Geography 323 -- Geomorphology ... solid fragments ejected from ash (silt texture) to lapilli (gravel sized) to blocks and bombs (boulders) ...
www.uregina.ca/~sauchyn/geog323/geol.html
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