Glossary entry

Portuguese term or phrase:

junta de distensão

English translation:

extensional joints

Added to glossary by Carla Saboia
Feb 25, 2011 20:47
13 yrs ago
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Portuguese term

junta de distensão

Portuguese to English Other Geology Fractures/Joints
"Essas estruturas (falhas transcorrentes ou de transferência, ou grandes juntas de distensão?) podem implicar em um componente de movimento direcional para a falha de contato..."

This is a technical report on a certain geological formation. Thanks!

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[PDF] CARACTERIZAÇÃO ESTRUTURAL DA ÁREA DA SERRA DO LETREIRO, OESTE DA ... - [ Translate this page ]
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by PR de CARVALHO COSTA - 2003 - Related articles
1 Curso de Geologia (CG/CCET/UFRN), Campus Universitário, Caixa Postal 1596, CEP 59078-970, ... extensional joints, or to synthetic and antithetic/conjugate faults, ..... Figura 8: Detalhe de banda de deformação com juntas de distensão ...

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Ur_KDDM...

Earth-prints: Quantitative analysis of extensional joints in the ...
by D Di Bucci - 2009 - Related articles
Title: Quantitative analysis of extensional joints in the southern Adriatic foreland (Italy), and the active tectonics of the Apulia region ...
www.earth-prints.org/handle/2122/5851

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[PDF] 2 CONGRESSO BRASILEIRO DE P&D EM PETRÓLEO & GÁS - [ Translate this page ]
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(alojamento em juntas de distensão, sítios pull-apart, falhas), indicam que o ... of examples of structural control at several scales (emplacement at extensional joints, pull-apart sites, faults and other dilatational structures), ...
www.portalabpg.org.br/PDPetro/2/1169.pdf

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ennsylvania Geological Survey: Trenton Black River Carbonates ...
Structural Geology. The Ridge and Valley structural province is the classic example .... The presence of several overprinted extensional joint sets implies ...
www.dcnr.state.pa.us/topogeo/tbr/tbrintro.aspx - Cached
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unloading joint

See types of joints at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_(geology)

There are six types: tectonic, unloading, cooling, based on their action, plus strike, dip, and oblique, depending on their relationship to the rock.

Then see p. 38 of the folllowing thesis for a description of 'junta de distencao':
Junta de distensão. Cisalhamento puro. Cisalhamento simples ..... junta de distensão, ou uma zona de falha com múltiplas interseções, teoricamente ...
bdtd.bczm.ufrn.br/tedesimplificado/tde_busca/processaArquivo.php?...
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expansion joints

expansion joints
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