A Partial Glossary of Spanish Geological Terms ... - Pubs Warehouse

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llabana nf smooth or polished flat slab of rock
llacorella nf [Valencia, Sp] a white or bluish
marl of Miocene age
llama nf swamp, marsh | flame | pack animal
used in Andean countries to haul ore,
concentrates, supplies, etc. | //. de oxidation
oxidizing flame | //. de reduction reducing
flame
llamado/-da adj known as, called, so-called (not
always translated, e.g. el llamado Pluton
Disputada 'the Disputada Pluton 1)
llamargo nm swamp, marsh
llamazar nm swamp, marsh
llambria nf cliff
llamenga nf [Asturia, Sp] mud
llamo nm [Ch] fine ore | coal dust |
[Chuquicamata, Ch] ground low grade copper
ore | [Pe] earthy, reddish oxidized silver ore
llampera nf [Bol] talus, landslide | ore found in
talus deposits | [Ch] soil or ground which
contains easily worked ore
llampero nm [Chuquicamata, Ch] Stockwork of
atacamite-bearing veinlets in porphyry copper
ore
llampo nm [Bol, Ch] finely broken or otherwise
easily exploitable ore
llampu nm [Bol] pure sublimate of sulfer
liana nf plain
llanada nf plain (of great extent but fully in
view)
llanadora nf [Arg] grader
llanca «/[Ch] any blue-green copper silicate
mineral used by the Aurucanian Indians of
Chile as jewelry
llandeiliano,-na adj Llandeilian
llandeilense adj Llandeilian | nm Llandeilian
Llandeilo nm Llandeilian
llandilo,-la adj Llandeilian
llandoveriano,-na adj Llandoverian
llandoveriense adj Llandoverian | nm
Llandoverian
llaneza nf plain
llanita nf llanite (obs, rhyolite)
llano,-na adj even, flat, smooth | level | nm
plain | flatland | //. aluvial alluvial plain | //.
aluvio-glaciar outwash plain | //. arenoso sandy
plain | //. costero coastal plain | //. de inundation
flood plain
LL-1
| //. de piamonte piedmont plain
llanura nf tropical plain (of very great extent) |
//. aluvial alluvial plain | //. aluvio-glatiar
outwash plain | //. costanera coastal plain | //.
costera coastal plain | //. de agradation
aggradation plain | //. de inundation flood plain
| //. de piamonte piedmont plain | //. de relleno
fluviogladar overwash plain | //. del rto valley
floor, bottom land | //. glatiarica kettle plain |
//. salina alkaline or salt flat | //. troncal
peneplain
llanvirniense adj Llanvirnian | nm Llanvirnian
llapa nf mercury used to amalgamate silver
llapar vtr to add mercury to produce silver
amalgram
llapana nf [Pe] debris flow occaisioned by flash
flooding of a normally dry quebrada
llauca «/[Pe] a smooth, black clay with greasy
lustre found in veins
llaucana nf [Ch] miner's pry bar or pick axe
llaucanero nm [Ch] miner who breaks up large
fragments of ore with a llaucana
llaucar vtr [Ch] to use a llaucana
llauckana nf [Bol] pointed metal bar used to bar
down the roof and walls of a mine
Have nf section of ore or wall rock in the form of
an arc which is left in place to support the roof
of a mine | [Sp] crib
llegada nf [seis] arrival | //. sismica cable break
llegar a planes vtr to bottom (mine workings)
lleira nf deposit of pebbles and coarse gravel
llena nf alluvium | flood, overflow of a river
llenado nm filling
llenamiento nm filling of veins, etc.
llenante nf flood tide
llenar vtr to flood, overflow | to fill | nm rise
or fall of the sea
lleno,-na adj flooded | high (tides)
Hera nf quarry | stony or rocky ground | sandy
ground
Heron nm ground covered with large boulders
llevar vtr to carry, transport | to bear, have,
contain | //. en suspension to carry in
suspension (rivers) | //. inclusiones de to contain
inclusions of | //. una poligonal [surv] to run a
traverse
1 Helena n/[Bol] franckeite
llimpe nm [Mex] cinnabar
llimpi nm [Bol] finely laminated ores with the
appearence of mica | [Pe] ores of red color,
generally cinnabar