décollement
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See also: decollement
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French décollement.
Noun[edit]
décollement (plural décollements)
- (geology) A gliding plane between two rock masses; a basal detachment fault.
- 1987, Donald J. Orth, Metal Biogeochemistry in Surface-water Systems:
- The décollements occur in near-continuously exposed Upper Devonian to Lower Cretaceous strata in the southern Chandler Lake quadrangle.
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From décoller (“to unstick”) + -ment.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
décollement m (plural décollements)
Further reading[edit]
- “décollement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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