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Meaning of plegamiento



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Jorge Luis Tovar Díaz

plegamiento
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Folding: m. (Geol. ) Formation of a mountain range or a crash of the land by the action of tangential orogenic thrusts that compress the primitively horizontal layers against a land mass sets, forcing the layers to bend, rise and crack.

  










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