razon de ser de la zona de mayor subsidencia
English translation: which is / due to it being the area of greatest / highest subsidence
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which makes it the zone/area of greater subsidence Explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidence "mayor" could also be "greatest" or "highest", if it's not comparing to something else. |
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which explains the area of greatest subsidence Explanation: That's how I understand it, but it would have been nice to have had the rest of the sentence... |
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reason to be of the greatest subsidence zone Explanation: . |
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which is / due to it being the area of greatest / highest subsidence Explanation: A great thickness of sediment normally builds up BECAUSE of subsidence, i.e. the basin deepens due to tectonics and leaves more space to be filled up, the thickness of sediment does not normally cause subsidence in geological processes. This is Peru where active tectonics lead to susidence, forming basins which are infilled - hence I opt, in context, for causal, not resultant, subsidence. Imagine a delta forming at the end of a river - if more sediment arrives, it can only thicken to water height, it doesn't build a mountain, instead it spreads over a wider area. [PDF] Active Subsidence Controlled by Basement Structures in the ...File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML Active subsidence controlled by basement structures. Andean range of Peru and also laterally over the present foothills. The basin was ... [PDF] Subsidence history of the north Peruvian Oriente (Maronon basin ...File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML 67 m/Ma) indicates that flexural subsidence dominates, and that the Oriente basin of. Peru has becomed a foreland basin. Thomas et al. ... horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/divers4/010008590.pdf - Similar pages |
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