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achitophel

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• Fondo de cuenca arcilloso-limoso

Spanish to English Science Geology Geomorphological units

As per previous, from a list of geomorphological units.

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(Bottom of the ) clayey-silt basin

neilmac

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neilmac

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(Bottom of the ) clayey-silt basin

I was going to post "clayey-silty" but Google asks "Did you mean"? So I'm posting wothout the offending "y"...

https://books.google.es/books?id=Uig0AQAAMAAJ - 1993
"... sediments are predominantly silty to sandy clay or clayey silt."

Reference:

http://www.linguee.es/espanol-ingles/search?source=auto&query=fondo

Peer comment(s):

agree	spanruss : An interesting aside: although both are used here in seemingly equivalent adjectival forms, there is a difference between what is classified as clayey silt versus silty clay. It probably is best to leave the word order the same. 2 hrs
	I was referring to "clayey-silt" versus "clayey-silty" as Google seems to prefer the former. I wasn't considering changing the word order.
agree	philgoddard 7 hrs

4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks to all. Incidentally, I plumpe for "basin ... floor", which seems more appropriate in a technical context. "

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• Fondo de cuenca arcilloso-limoso

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(Bottom of the ) clayey-silt basin

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• Fondo de cuenca arcilloso-limoso

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