agent modelador

English translation: shaping agent

12:19 Jun 17, 2008
Catalan to English translations [PRO]
Science - Geography
Catalan term or phrase: agent modelador
El riu és el principal agent modelador de la vall
Pilar Gili Ferré
Spain
Local time: 16:57
English translation:shaping agent
Explanation:
Correct catalan, "agent" :)

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"Water is the most important external landform shaping agent in dry regions"

http://go.owu.edu/~jbkrygie/krygier_html/geog_111/geog_111_l...

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Milena Bosco (X)
Italy
Local time: 16:57
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gràcies!
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Summary of answers provided
3 +1erosive agent
Ross Andrew Parker
4shaping agent
Milena Bosco (X)


  

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18 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
erosive agent


Explanation:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=river "main erosive age...

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[PDF] Deep Alpine and Perialpine ValleysFile Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
question of the main erosive agent: rivers (for the gorge) and glaciers (for the basin). And if it should be a system of drowned gorges, the controversy ...
www.cosis.net/abstracts/EGU2007/03244/EGU2007-J-03244.pdf - Similar pages - Note this


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Earth and Mars: a ComparisonFor most of the planet's history, wind has probably been the main erosive agent. Despite giant dust storms, however, the wind clearly has not been very ...
cmex.ihmc.us/cmex/data/VOViews/EARTMARS.HTM - 13k -


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Desertification in southern EuropeBelgrade, but the main erosive agent in Yugoslavia as elsewhere in the region is running. water. Heavy rains of autumn falling on soils baked by the summer ...
www.springerlink.com/index/MG8681T267231140.pdf - Similar pages - Note this


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A Character Study: SolomonThough the river is the main erosive agent in the canyon, it is by no means the only agent. Water flowing from short, violent rainstorms pushes sediment ...
www.eagleflight.org/characters/solomon-erosion.html - 24k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this


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[PDF] jf000344 1..14File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
those in which rivers are the main erosive agent, and from .... junction with South Platte River on the Great Plains. Cross- ...
www.colorado.edu/GeolSci/faculty/molnarpdf/2006JGR.Anderson... - Similar pages - Note this


Ross Andrew Parker
Local time: 16:57
Native speaker of: English

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Andy Watkinson: Can't really argue with that ;-))
1 hr
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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
shaping agent


Explanation:
Correct catalan, "agent" :)

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Note added at 6 hrs (2008-06-17 18:44:14 GMT)
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"Water is the most important external landform shaping agent in dry regions"

http://go.owu.edu/~jbkrygie/krygier_html/geog_111/geog_111_l...



Milena Bosco (X)
Italy
Local time: 16:57
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Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian, Native in CatalanCatalan
PRO pts in category: 4
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