
[French, tablecloth, nappe, from Old French, tablecloth, from Latin mappa, napkin. See map.]
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A sheet of rocks, part of a broken recumbent fold which has been moved forward over the rock formations beneath and in front of it, finally covering them. Nappes are typical of most mountains of the Alpine type of structure; the western Alps display a complex series of nappes, formed when the African foreland was pushed northwards against the European foreland.
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - nappe, overskydningsdække
Nederlands (Dutch)
soort rotsformatie
Deutsch (German)
n. - (Schub)decke, Überfallwasser, (math.) Schale (Teil d. Kegelmantels)
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - στρώμα πετρώματος, στρώμα νερού που χύνεται πάνω από φράγμα, επίπεδο
Português (Portuguese)
n. - lençol (m) de água, deslocamento (m) de lâmina (Geol.), uma das duas seções iguais de um cone
Русский (Russian)
покров, пласт
Español (Spanish)
n. - capa de agua, lámina de agua
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - veckningsformation (geol.)
中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
越过水坝落下的水, 叠层结构, 等分半圆锥
中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 越過水壩落下的水, 疊層結構, 等分半圓錐
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 냅(원지성 기만을 덮는 암체), 댐을 넘쳐 흐르는 물
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) غطاء طاوله
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - מפל מים, שכבת סלע רוכבת שהוזחה ממקומה, בד"כ כתוצאה מיתר-לחץ
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