relleno de cuencas

English translation: the filling of intracratonic basins

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Spanish term or phrase:relleno de cuencas
English translation:the filling of intracratonic basins
Entered by: lbotto

22:35 Dec 5, 2011
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Science - Surveying / Mapa Metalogenetico
Spanish term or phrase: relleno de cuencas
El tipo de sedimentacion con calizas y rocas volcanicas basicas intercaladas y de plegamiento (estilo "jurasiano") confiere al Cretacico un caracter de depositacion de plataforma continental y de relleno de cuencas intracratonicas poco profundas.
lbotto
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the filling of intracratonic basins
Explanation:
With sufficiently high sea level, epeiric seas begin to flood the cratons, often filling foreland and intracratonic basins before spilling out over normally high ground ...

Klitzsch (1986, 1990a) and Klitzsch and Squyres (1990) recognized three major sedimentary cycles filling the intracratonic basin of Egypt and northern Sudan ...
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the filling of intracratonic basins


Explanation:
With sufficiently high sea level, epeiric seas begin to flood the cratons, often filling foreland and intracratonic basins before spilling out over normally high ground ...

Klitzsch (1986, 1990a) and Klitzsch and Squyres (1990) recognized three major sedimentary cycles filling the intracratonic basin of Egypt and northern Sudan ...



    Reference: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KaxnNYz2g6EC&pg=PA42&lpg=...
    Reference: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WtmAFo8xLiUC&pg=PA107&lpg...
Helena Chavarria
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