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Preface In recent years, almost all countries in Latin America have adopted democratic political systems and liberal economic policies. The resulting favorable investment climate has spurred a new wave of North American investment in Latin American mineral resources and has improved cooperation between geoscience organizations on both continents. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has responded to the new situation through cooperative mineral resource investigations with a number of countries in Latin America. These activities are now being coordinated by the USGS's Center for Inter-American Mineral Resource Investigations (CIMRI), recently established in Tucson, Arizona. In the course of CIMRI's work, we have found a need for a compilation of Spanish geological and mining terminology that goes beyond the few Spanish-English geological dictionaries available. Even geologists who are fluent in Spanish often encounter local terminology oijerga that is unfamiliar. These terms, which have grown out of five centuries of mining tradition in Latin America, and frequently draw on native languages, usually cannot be found in standard dictionaries. There are, of course, many geological terms which can be recognized even by geologists who speak little or no Spanish. These cognates have largely been excluded from this glossary. An exception is made for cognates that are pronounced similarly in English and Spanish, but whose spelling may render them unfamiliar to persons not familiar with the rules of Spanish pronunciation. The glossary is alphabetized in the traditional Spanish pattern, thus c/z, //, and n are treated as separate letters. A list of abbreviations, a section on weights and measures, and a list of sources consulted are given in the prefatory material. This glossary must be considered preliminary. A complete compilation satisfying the requirements of modern lexicography would require more time than the author can commit. Any user who finds errors or omissions may kindly write to the author at: Center for Inter-American Mineral Resource Investigations U.S. Geological Survey 210 East Seventh Street Tucson AZ, 85705-8454
adj adv Aig Ariz BC Bol Br Calif CAm Ch chem Col cryst Cu EC Fr Guy Hon hyd LAm Mex «f nm NMex obs Par Pe pet Pi PR seis Sp stats StoDgo surv SWUS Ur US var vintr vpr vtr Vz Abbreviations Abreviaturas adjective adverb Argentina Arizona Baja California Bolivia Brazil California Central America Chile chemistry Colombia crystallography Cuba Ecuador French Guyana Honduras hydrology Latin America Mexico noun (feminine) noun (masculine) New Mexico obsolete Paraguay Peru petroleum plural Puerto Rico seismology Spain statistics Dominican Republic surveying southwest United States Uruguay United States variety intransitive verb reflexive verb transitive verb Venezuela adjective adverbio Argentina Arizona (EE.UU.) Baja California (Mexico) Bolivia Brasil California (EE.UU.) America Central Chile quimica Colombia cristalografia Cuba Ecuador frances Guyana Honduras hidrologia Latinoamerica Mexico sustantivo feminino sustantivo masculine Nuevo Mexico (EE. UU.) caida en desuso Paraguay Peru petroleo plural Puerto Rico sismologia Espana estadistica Santo Domingo levantamiento suroueste de las EE. UU. Uruguay Estados Unidos variedad verbo intransitive verbo pronominal verbo transitive Venezuela
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Page 5 and 6: manzana (Argentina) manzana (Costa
Page 7 and 8: or pies. The legua is also sometime
Page 9 and 10: Paraguay Peru Santo Domingo Spain U
Page 11 and 12: Sources Consulted Fuentes Consultad
Page 13 and 14: aalenenseadj Aalenian | nm Aalenian
Page 15 and 16: or any other steel grey silver mine
Page 17 and 18: Pattison process for separating sil
Page 19 and 20: deepening | shaft dug to establish
Page 21 and 22: altiplanicie nf high plateau, table
Page 23 and 24: anomaly | a. gravimetrica gravity a
Page 25 and 26: aeolian sand | a. esqueleal skeleta
Page 27 and 28: assemblage asociar a vtr to associa
Page 29 and 30: lue | «. de cobalto cobalt blue |
Page 31 and 32: arranquilla nf [Mex] gully barreal
Page 33 and 34: dlido nm meteorite bolo nm [Col] a
Page 35 and 36: cabalgar vtr to overlap | to thrust
Page 37 and 38: calorifico,-ca adj calorific calori
Page 39 and 40: menudo small coal | c. mineral coal
Page 41 and 42: cebo nm [Me"x] smelter charge | [Co
Page 43 and 44: cleavage | c. paralelo bedding clea
Page 45 and 46: compresidn nf compression | c. isot
Page 47 and 48: kinematic symmetry cleavage | c. de
Page 49 and 50: cribado,-da adj cribate, cribiform
Page 51 and 52: intrusive body | c. magmdtico boss,
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vein, mine selectively chchipa or c
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D dacitico,-ca nf dacitic danense a
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descubrir vtr to discover desdoblar
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dicroita nf dichroite dicroismo nm
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eclimometro nm clinometer econometr
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escala nf scale | e. de dureza hard
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maxima versimilitud maximum-likelih
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fabrica nf fabric (petrographic) |
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flecha nf deflection flexibilidad n
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gabarro nm xenolith | nodular fragm
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granalla nf small grains of metal,
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H haba nf nodule | nodular (bean-li
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horizonte nm bed, layer, stratum |
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depth meter indicatriz nf indicatri
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isodina nf isomagnetic line isodina
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cage jayet nm jet jazido nm layer,
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keratospilita nf keratospilite (obs
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[Serrata de Lorca, Sp] bed of nativ
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litro nm liter lixivacidn nf leachi
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llinqui w/[Sandia, Pe] clayey, ster
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| pooling of properties to obtain a
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containing 50 to 60 ounce per ton s
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minal adj pertaining to a mine mina
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muestreo nm sampling multicolineali
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N nacarado,-da adj pearly, nacreous
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proustite nddulo nm nodule | [Col]
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oligoceno,-na adj Oligocene | nm Ol
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ortobituminoso,-sa adj orthobitumin
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palingenisis nf palingenesis palino
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pedrero nm stone cutter | [Ch] ston
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petrofa>brico,-ca adj fabric | nm f
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pentlandite | p. magnetica pyrrhoti
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inclinado inclined fold | p. incomp
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posmagm£tico,-ca adh postmagmatic
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pseudobrecha nf pseudobreccia pseud
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quetzalztli nm [Mex] transluscent g
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ayano,-na adj bordering, adjacent r
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emanso nm pool of still water | bac
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iqueza nf riches | richness | nfpl
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saaliense adj Saalian sa'bado nm a
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sedentario,-ria adj sedentary sedif
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silicificar vtr to silicify silicil
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granalla adamantine shot drilling |
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tabaire nm a variety of soft limest
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telogen£tico,-ca adj telogenetic t
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tilloide nm tilloid tina nf [Cerro
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trapiche nm [Ch] crude mill for cru
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u ubicacion nf location, position,
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varva nf varve | v. de arcilla glac
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volcar vtr to invert, overturn | to
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xairo,-ra adj [Col] skew, oblique x
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yodado,-da adj iodized | containing
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caldfera calcium zeolite | z. de Bo
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side of a vein, (this is, of course
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