different between crustal vs palinspastic
crustal
English
Etymology
From crust +? -al.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k??st?l/
Adjective
crustal (comparative more crustal, superlative most crustal)
- Of, pertaining to, or forming a crust, especially the crust of the Earth or other planet.
- 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, p. 189:
- The hope was to lower a drill through over 4,000 metres of Pacific Ocean water off the coast of Mexico and drill some 5,000 metres through relatively thin crustal rock.
- 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, p. 189:
Anagrams
- curtals
French
Adjective
crustal (feminine singular crustale, masculine plural crustaux, feminine plural crustales)
- crustal
crustal From the web:
palinspastic
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????? (pálin, “again”) + ????????? (spastikós, “drawing”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pæl?n?spæst?k/
- Rhymes: -æst?k
- Hyphenation: pal?in?spas?tic
Adjective
palinspastic (not comparable)
- (geology, of a map) Showing the previous location of geological features, correcting for any intervening crustal movements.
- 1995, James L. Pindell, Kenneth D. Tabbutt, Mesozoic-Cenozoic Andean Paleogeography and Regional Controls on Hydrocarbon Systems, A. J. Tankard, Ramiro Suárez Soruco, Herman J. Welsink (editors), Petroleum Basins of South America, Volume 62, page 102,
- To improve the accuracy of spatial reconstruction through time, it is necessary to estimate and restore bulk strain by working backward in time so that the maps represent palinspastic reconstructions of geologic development.
- 1996, M. P. A. Jackson, Chapter 1: Retrospective Salt Tectonics, M. P. A. Jackson, David G. Roberts, Sig Snelson (editors), Salt Tectonics: A Global Perspective, page 8,
- Exactly when the first palinspastic reconstruction was published is uncertain.
- 2009, K. Ustaszewski, et al., A map-view restoration of Alpine-Carpathian-Dinaridic system for the early Miocene, Nikolaus Froitzheim, Stefan M. Schmid (editors), Orogenic Processes in the Alpine Collision Zone, Swiss Journal of Geosciences Supplementary Issue, page S276,
- Another set of palinspastic restorations aimed at restoring tectonic units based on the quantification of shortening amounts derived from balanced cross sections or from restoring offsets along major strike-slip faults.
- 1995, James L. Pindell, Kenneth D. Tabbutt, Mesozoic-Cenozoic Andean Paleogeography and Regional Controls on Hydrocarbon Systems, A. J. Tankard, Ramiro Suárez Soruco, Herman J. Welsink (editors), Petroleum Basins of South America, Volume 62, page 102,
Derived terms
- palinspastically
Translations
palinspastic From the web:
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