couraça

English translation: a shielded/solid-state + layer/stratum/bed

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Portuguese term or phrase:couraça
English translation:a shielded/solid-state + layer/stratum/bed
Entered by: Mario Freitas

14:41 Oct 4, 2017
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Geology
Portuguese term or phrase: couraça
Os fragmentos avaliados são compostos predominantemente por uma crosta contínua de canga, também denominada canga couraçada.
Nessas áreas a canga forma uma camada rígida sobre o solo e as raízes acessam o solo em algumas fendas ou se estabelecem onde há bolsões de solo sobre a couraça.
Andre Damasceno
Brazil
Local time: 13:21
a shielded/solid-state + layer/stratum/bed
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Mario Freitas
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4 +1(indurated) crust
Gilmar Fernandes
3a shielded/solid-state + layer/stratum/bed
Mario Freitas


  

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a shielded/solid-state + layer/stratum/bed


Explanation:
Sugestão

Mario Freitas
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(indurated) crust


Explanation:
https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/3-540-3...

Induration is the process of hardening rocks through cementation of soil or porous rock, as one of the processes of diagenesis and lithification (see pr Vol. VI), or as a secondary effect of weathering (Merrill, 1897, p. 254);

http://www.tede.ufop.br/tde_arquivos/1/TDE-2012-03-27T115116...

In page 103, there's the two terms in EN and PT side by side......just use the search feature in this PDF

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_crust


Gilmar Fernandes
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