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English Greek glossary of geological terms

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NOTE Terms in blue type have been added in this edition or are changed compared with the previous one.

English Term / / Greek Term

Aalenian

abyssal , ,

abyssal fan

accessory aperture

accessory mineral ,

acetabulum

adaptive radiation

Aegean ,

age

Agenian { }

agglutinate, agglutinated

akrophorous adj., dasycladales .,

Alaunian

Albian

alga {pl. algae} {., . }

allochem

allochthonous

alluvial

alluvial fan

alluvial plain

alluvium

alteration ,

alternation

alveolus

ambilateral {adj.} {., 2 }

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Anisian

anomalous contact

anticline

aperture

appearance {f a taxon} {, ...}

Aptian

Aquitanian

Aragonian { }

Archaeozoic

arenite

Artinskian

Asselian

association, biocoenosis, biocenosis

Astaracian

Aturian

aureole, halo

authigenic, authigenetic

authigenous

Autunian

Auversian

axial cavity dasycladales

axial siphon dasycladales

Badenian

Bajocian ,

bar

Barremian

barrier

barrier island complex

Bartonian

basement

basin

basionym {bot.} {., .}

Bathonian

bauxite

beach-rock

benthic {not benthonic}

Berriasian

Berriasian

Biharian

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bilateral {adj.} {., 2 }

bilateral symmetry

bilateral(s) {subs., zool.} (-) {., .}

bioaccumulation

bioclast

bioclastic limestone

bioconstruction

bioerosion

biofacies

biogenic

biolithite

biostasy, biostasis

biostratigraphy

biotope

bioturbation

biozonation

biozone

Bithynian

bitoumenous

blue-green alga Cyanophyceae

boudinage (, ) ,

boudinage ()

brackish

branching

breccia

bridgmanite , () Bruxellian

Burdigalian

Caenozoic

Calabrian

calcarenite , ,

calcareous algae

calcification dasycladales

calcilutite ,

calcirudite ,

calcite

calcitic dolomite

Callovian

Cambrian

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Campanian

carbonate

carbonate platform , ,

Carboniferous

Carixian

Carnian

cavity

cavity dasycladales

cement

Cenomanian

chalk ,

Charmouthian

Chattian { }

chela {.: }

chelate (adj.)

chelation

chelicera (subs.) (.,.)

chelicerate (adj.) (.,.)

cheliform (adj.) ,

chelipeds (subs.) ()

chert

chert band, band of chert

chert nodule

chert, silex, flint

chlorophyceae, green algae ,

chronostratigraphy

clast

clastic, detrital

clinopyroxene

clinopyroxenite

club-shaped dasycladales

coarse-grained

coenozone, cenozone, assemblage zone, faunizone ,

cohesive

coiled

conchoidal { , 1953}

Coniacian ,

conservation / geoconservation /

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conservation geology

contact

continental

continental {terrestrial} ,

continental platform

convection

convection cell

convective

coquina {fr. lumachelle}

Cordevolian

correlation

cortex dasycladales

Couvinian

craton

Cretaceous

cribrate aperture

cross-lamination ,

crust {ex. continental crust} {.. }

Cuisian

Dacian

Danian

Dasycladales, dasyclads ()

debris ,

debris cone

debris fan

debris flow ,

deposit (1) ( )

deposit (2), mineral deposit, ore body

deposited moraine, stranded moraine

deposition ( )

desilicification, desilification

detritus, debris {.}

Devonian

diabase

diagenesis

diagenetic

diapirism

dip of beds

disappearance ()

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discontinuity

distal part

dog teeth diagenesis

doline

dolomite

dolomitic limestone

dolomitization

Domerian

dunite

early karstification, precoce karstification

echinoid spines

ecophaenotype

Egerian

Eggenburgian

Eifelian

eluvial

eluvial mantle

eluvium

embryonic chamber

emersion ,

Emilian

Emscherian

Emsian

encrusting algae

end moraine, frontal moraine, terminal moraine , ,

englacial moraine ,

Eocene

eon

eonothem

epoch

era

erathem

erosion

eustatic

eustatism

event {. }

evolutionary radiation

exaptation

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external platform facies /

extraclast { }

facies .

Famennian

fan

Fassanian

fault

fault block

fault throw

fauna

fenestrae , {, }

fibrous-radial ooid -

fine-grained

first appearance

flabellate, flabelliform, fan-shaped

flabellum palaeont. .

flora

flow marks

flysch

foraminifer

foraminifer

fossil

fossiliferous

fracture

fracture

fracture {v.}

fractured

fractured rock

fracturing

Frasnian

gabbro

gabbroic { }

gap, hiatus

garnet

garnet websterite

gastropod

Gedinnian

Gelasian

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geodiversity

geopark

geopetalic structure

geospot

geotope, geosite

Givetian

graben ,

gradation

graded

granofels

granular, granulate

granulometric selection

granulometry

greywacke

Griesbachian

ground moraine, subglacial moraine, glacial drift

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Gnz

Hadean

harzburgite, hartzburgite {

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index species

indicated mineral resource ,

inferred mineral resource

intercalation

internal platform facies /

interstice

intertidal

intraclast

intraplatform basin

Ionian

irregular contact

irregular fenestrae {pl.}

jasper

Julian

Jurassic

Karpatian

karstification ,

Kazanian

keriotheca

keriothecal , -

key fossil, guide fossil

key horizon

Kimmeridgian

Kungurian

Lacian

Ladinian

lagoon

lamellibranch, pelecypod ,

lamina

lamination

laminoid fenestrae {pl.}

Landenian

landslide

Langhian

last appearance

lateral

lateral continuity

lateral moraine

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lateral transition

lateral, branch dasycladales

lateritization, laterization

lateritization, laterization

Ledian

lherzolite

limestone

listric fault

lithofacies

lithostratigraphy

load cast ,

local stage

longitudinal moraine

Longobardian

Lotharingian

Lower Carboniferous

Lower Cretaceous

Lower Devonian

Lower Eocene

Lower Jurassic or Lias ,

Lower Miocene

Lower Oligocene

Lower Paleocene

Lower Permian

Lower Pleistocene

Lower Pliocene

Lower Triassic

Ludian

Lusitanian

Lutetian

lutite {< lat. lutum} granulometry {< },

Maastrichtian

macrofossil

Maeotian

mafic rock

magnesium calcite

margin

marginal facies, margin facies

marl

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marly

massive, unbedded, nonbedded, unstratified

matrix

matrix

measured mineral resource

medial moraine, median moraine

mlange, melange

Mesozoic

Messinian

metamorphic aureole ,

metamorphic sole

meteoric

meteoric diagenesis

micrite

micritization

microbial

microbial sediment

microbial sedimentary structure ,

microbial structure

microbially induced

microbially induced sedimentary structure

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microbially induced structure

microbially induced sediment

microbiostratigraphy

micro-breccia

microfacies

microfacies analysis

microfossil

microgranular

microplaty (e.g. hematite) (.. )

microsparite

Middle Carboniferous

Middle Devonian

Middle Eocene

Middle Jurassic or Dogger ,

Middle Miocene

Middle Pleistocene

Middle Triassic

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Milazzian

Mindel

mineral resource

Miocene

modifying factor

molasse {- , }

Montian

moraine

moraine amphitheatre

moraine in transit, carried moraine, moving moraine

moraine rampart

morain