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rakojärjestelmä

English translation: fissure system

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Finnish term or phrase:rakojärjestelmä
English translation:fissure system
Entered by: Arja Whiteside (X)

11:52 Dec 17, 2010
Finnish to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Geology
Finnish term or phrase: rakojärjestelmä
Kallioperän laatu vaikuttaa kallion kokonaisvakauteen,
rakojärjestelmän muodostamien osien vakauteen
Arja Whiteside (X)
Local time: 07:11
fissure system
Explanation:
A group of fissures having the same age and generally parallel strike and dip.
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Desmond O'Rourke
United States
Local time: 00:11
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Thank you both ever so much, (who creates all of these mysterious terms) I searched hours and could not get any reasonable translation. Gap system? This system that system…. I think this is the best solution in this case.
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4fissure system
Desmond O'Rourke
4joint system OR fissure system
Graeme Walle (X)


  

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fissure system


Explanation:
A group of fissures having the same age and generally parallel strike and dip.


    Reference: http://www.maden.hacettepe.edu.tr/dmmrt/index.html
    Reference: http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/oldroot/volcanoes/volc_images...
Desmond O'Rourke
United States
Local time: 00:11
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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Thank you both ever so much, (who creates all of these mysterious terms) I searched hours and could not get any reasonable translation. Gap system? This system that system…. I think this is the best solution in this case.
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9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
joint system OR fissure system


Explanation:
A new one on me. May be “joint system” or as Desmond said a “fissure system” which I think are basically the same thing (hmmm?).

rako = joint (or crack/fissure)

Joint system has been used by the Geological Survey of Finland (GTK) in the past (e.g. http://arkisto.gtk.fi/yst/Tiedonanto_05.pdf; see also see http://www.posiva.fi/files/188/WR2006-104web.pdf

but Finnish geologists also have used “fissure system” (e.g. http://www.geologinenseura.fi/bulletin/Volume79/Saalmann_200... )

Sorry I cannot be more definite. There are usually two or more possible translations for many Finnish geological terms and new ones like this appear all the time (which all gives me a headache). More context might help decide which is the right term.



Graeme Walle (X)
Finland
Local time: 07:11
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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