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Linsen

English translation: lens

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German term or phrase:Linsen
English translation:lens
Entered by: Thomas Roberts

16:36 Feb 15, 2016
German to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Geology / description of water flowing down a slope
German term or phrase: Linsen
In a letter discussing responsibility for water damage to a property (built on a slope).

"Das Hangwasser sickert entlang besser durchlässiger Schichten und Linsen aderförmig talwärts."

There's not really any more immediate context of relevance to this phrase.

Thanks in advance.
Thomas Roberts
lens
Explanation:
"A lens is a lens-shaped body of rock of different lithology than the unit that encloses it. "

Just to get started. I am guessing as to whether this actually fits.
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Kristina Cosumano (X)
Germany
Local time: 18:09
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Many thanks
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1 +4lens
Kristina Cosumano (X)
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lens
Ed Ashley

  

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lens


Explanation:
"A lens is a lens-shaped body of rock of different lithology than the unit that encloses it. "

Just to get started. I am guessing as to whether this actually fits.


    Reference: http://www.stratigraphy.org/upload/bak/litho.htm
Kristina Cosumano (X)
Germany
Local time: 18:09
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Many thanks

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Johanna Timm, PhD: confirmed by Bucksch, Dico of Geotechnical Engineering
0 min
  -> Thanks Johanna.
agree  Ed Ashley: see references
5 mins
  -> Thanks Ed, also for the references.
agree  Ramey Rieger (X)
11 mins
  -> Thanks Ramey
agree  Edith Kelly
15 hrs
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17 mins
Reference: lens

Reference information:
"Der Schwerpunkt der vorliegenden Arbeit liegt in der Auswertung von "Tracer-durchbruchskurven" für die Identifikation von Strukturen und Materialeigenschaften. Beispiele solcher Strukturen sind Einzelklüfte, Kluftsysteme, Schichten und Linsen."

"This thesis is focused on the evaluation of tracer-breakthrough curves for the purpose of identifying domain structures and material properties. Examples of such structures are single fractures, fracture systems, layers or lenses."

http://elib.uni-stuttgart.de/opus/volltexte/2005/2229/

"In geology a lens is a body of ore or rock or a deposit that is thick in the middle and thin at the edges, resembling a convex lens in cross-section."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lens_(geology)

Ed Ashley
United Kingdom
Native speaker of: English
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