Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
encajonar/encajonante
English translation:
to host / host [rock]
Spanish term
Hewing words so the deep meaning shows.
Native in: English 
Works in: Spanish to English, English to Spanish
encajonar/encajonante
La frases son éstas:
"La mineralización está asociada a carbonatos y óxidos de cobre; la roca encajonante es andesita..."
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"Los autores que elaboran la carta geológico-minera establecen que las obras mineras que se localizan al sureste del rancho están encajonadas en rocas ultrabásicas... etc... "
Is there someone with knowledge of geology who can explain what this means (and provide me with the translations)?
Thanks in advance!
Bob H.
| 4 +3 | to host / host [rock] |
Robert Carter
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| 2 | encase/encasing |
Muriel Vasconcellos
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Proposed translations
Mexico
Translating full-time since 1998
Native in: English (Variant: British) 
Works in: Spanish to English
to host / host [rock]
English-Spanish and Spanish-English Glossary of Geoscience Terms
host rock > roca huesped, roca encajonante
http://tinyurl.com/n87334v
Here's an entry from a UNAM glossary (from Mexico):
host rock, wall rock, enclosing rock: roca encajonante, roca encajante (Es), roca de caja
http://rmcg.geociencias.unam.mx/LGM/minerales/mineros.pdf
A previous KudoZ answer also has "hosting rock" for roca encajonante, but all I've been able to find so far points to "host rock" as the more common term.
http://esl.proz.com/kudoz/spanish_to_english/mining_minerals...
Host rock is, simply, the rock surrounding the ore deposit. Host rocks, as the definition suggests, may be found as a host to any kind of ore deposit, from gold to uranium. Host rock may also be defined as the type of rock where mineralization occurs. Host rocks are significant in identifying the age of the mineral deposit.
http://www.azomining.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=1224
Host Rock
Rock surrounding an ore body. Also known as country rock.
http://resourceopportunities.com/geology-processes-explained...
Country rock is a geological term meaning the rock native to an area. It is similar and in many cases interchangeable with the terms basement and wall rocks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_rock_(geology)
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United States
Each translation a gem!
Native in: English (Variant: US)
Works in: Spanish to English, Portuguese to English
encase/encasing
https://books.google.com/books?id=Llk7AQAAMAAJ
John Huston Finley - 1909 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Masses include (a) stockworkkwhich exhibit the ore in veinlets or interrupted fissures throughout **the encasing rock**; (b) bodies of ore deposited metasomatically; ...
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0978997670
Alexander Klimchouk, Ira Sasowsky, John Mylroie - 2014 - Science
The shape of **the encasing rock** is very irregular, with a low dip base, and it is not cylindrical, ruling out the explanation of this feature as a diatreme.
https://books.google.com/books?id=6b9LAAAAYAAJ
1897 - Mineral industries
Occasionally, it is true, we do find veins full of minerals foreign to **the encasing rock** and so symmetrically arranged in bands having a comb structure as to ...
https://books.google.com/books?id=DlVs0nifOe8C
1858
He divides his work into first, the metamorphism of **the encasing rock**; and second, the metamorphism of the eruptive rock. The different kinds of eruptive and ...
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