décollement
See also: decollement
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French décollement.
Noun
décollement (plural décollements)
- (geology) A gliding plane between two rock masses; a basal detachment fault.
- 1987, Donald J. Orth, Metal Biogeochemistry in Surface-water Systems:
- The décollements occur in near-continuously exposed Upper Devonian to Lower Cretaceous strata in the southern Chandler Lake quadrangle.
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French
Etymology
décoller (“to unstick”) + -ment
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de.kɔl.mɑ̃/
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Noun
décollement m (plural décollements)
- detachment, unsticking
Further reading
- “décollement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.