detrital fan

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• alluvial fan —    A fan like deposit of detrital material from steep mountain slopes [16] …   Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology

• конус виносу — конус выноса alluvial fan; alluvial cone; detrital fan; fan; debris cone ***Schuttkegel, Schuttfächer, Schwemmkegel, Schuttfächer, Endschwemmkegel – 1) Форма рельєфу утворена накопиченням пухкого уламкового матеріалу, відкладеного постійним або… …   Гірничий енциклопедичний словник

• sedimentary rock — Rock formed at or near the Earth s surface by the accumulation and lithification of fragments of preexisting rocks or by precipitation from solution at normal surface temperatures. Sedimentary rocks can be formed only where sediments are… …   Universalium

• Slave craton — which is one of the oldest dated rock units on Earth at 4.03 Ga. The crust of the Slave craton is thought to have amalgamated during a 2.69 Ga collision between a proto Slave western basement complex, known as the Central Slave Basement Complex,… …   Wikipedia

• Superior craton — in the west. The western margin extends from northern Minnesota through eastern Manitoba to northwestern Ontario.The formation of the Superior craton is best explained within the context of 2.72 2.68 Ga accretion of small continental plates and… …   Wikipedia

• Jack Hills — The Jack Hills are located in the Narryer Gneiss Terrane of the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, and comprise an 80 km long northeast trending belt of folded and metamorphosed supracrustal rocks. [cite web |… …   Wikipedia

• Devonian Period — Interval of geologic time from 417 to 354 million years ago; it was the fourth period of the Paleozoic Era. During the Devonian, a giant continent was situated in the Southern Hemisphere (see Gondwana), and other landmasses were located in the… …   Universalium

• Seatearth — is a British coal mining term, which is used in the geological literature. As noted by Jackson (1997), a seatearth is the layer of sedimentary rock underlying a coal seam. Seatearths have also been called seat earth , seat rock , or seat stone in …   Wikipedia

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• 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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