Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Portuguese term or phrase:
xistos borra de vinho
English translation:
purple-red tuffaceous slates/schist/hematic ashes
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liz askew
Nov 14, 2011 15:00
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xistos borra de vinho
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O traçado interessa fundamentalmente formações metassedimentares, de natureza essencialmente xistosa, do Paleozóico, de variedades diversas, nomeadamente xistos sericíticos e cloríticos, xistos verdes, xistos borra de vinho (hematíticos), xistos siliciosos, xistos ardosíferos e carbonosos, enquadrando intercalações de outros tipos litológicos diversos, de quartzitos, ...
Proposed translations
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| 4 +1 | purple-red tuffaceous slates/schist/hematic ashes |
liz askew
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| 4 +2 | dark-red hematitic schists |
airmailrpl
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| 5 | red shales (hematitic) |
kashew
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Nov 19, 2011 10:28: liz askew Created KOG entry
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purple-red tuffaceous slates/schist/hematic ashes
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dark-red hematitic schists
xistos borra de vinho => dark-red hematitic schists
Bulletin - Google Books Result
www.books.google.com/books?id=XYoeAQAAIAAJ...Geological Survey (U.S.) - 1917 - Science
The green and gray chloritic schist and the dark-red hematitic schist do not belong to the ... as already described; dark-red hematite schist or slate, ...
Imagem do dia – Xisto borra-de-vinho « Histórias da Vida e da Terra
www.vidaterra.wordpress.com/.../imagem-do-dia-xisto-b... -
Na foto vemos xistos borra-de-vinho (assim chamados devido à cor avermelhada que resulta da oxidação da hematite) do complexo ...
Bulletin - Google Books Result
www.books.google.com/books?id=XYoeAQAAIAAJ...Geological Survey (U.S.) - 1917 - Science
The green and gray chloritic schist and the dark-red hematitic schist do not belong to the ... as already described; dark-red hematite schist or slate, ...
Imagem do dia – Xisto borra-de-vinho « Histórias da Vida e da Terra
www.vidaterra.wordpress.com/.../imagem-do-dia-xisto-b... -
Na foto vemos xistos borra-de-vinho (assim chamados devido à cor avermelhada que resulta da oxidação da hematite) do complexo ...
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red shales (hematitic)
shale seems used more than schist in English
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Nina_PT
: "shales" são xistos de natureza argilosa: http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=shale xi...
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Reference:
A leitura disto http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schist deu-me a impressão de que se chamam schistose ironstones ou hematite-schists, mas o estranho é que as centenas de resultados que aparecem na internet com essa designação parecem ser cópias da mesma fonte.
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vidaterra.wordpress.com/.../imagem-do-dia-xisto-b... -
Na foto vemos xistos borra-de-vinho (assim chamados devido à cor avermelhada que resulta da oxidação da hematite) do complexo ...