alcotana

English translation: allocthonous

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Spanish term or phrase:alcotana
English translation:allocthonous
Entered by: Ryan Kelly

23:18 Apr 27, 2019
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Science - Geology / Mining
Spanish term or phrase: alcotana
Como resultado de estos movimientos, las cantidades alcotanas de sal también forman parte del mecanismo de entrampamiento en los flancos suroeste y sureste del prospecto

This is a document from Mexico for geological specifications at an oil drilling site.
Ryan Kelly
United States
Local time: 16:16
allocthonous
Explanation:
It's a typo for alóctanas.

2. geol. [Material] que se origina en un lugar distinto al de su yacimiento primitivo y que ha sido transportado por algún agente geológico:
se ha producido una acumulación de materiales alóctonos en el fondo del valle.

3. geol. [Suelo, roca o formación] geológica cuyos materiales proceden de otros yacimientos:
rocas alóctonas.

allocthonous. Adjective. Of rocks, deposits, etc.; found in a place other than where they and their constituents were formed.
http://www.yourdictionary.com/allocthonous

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http://www.wordreference.com/definicion/alóctono

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Hence "Como resultado de estos movimientos".

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Note added at 14 hrs (2019-04-28 13:21:57 GMT)
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In Dutch, "allochtoon" is a fairly common word for "immigrant", ie "person from a different soil".
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philgoddard
United States
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Thanks a bunch Phil!
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4 +5allocthonous
philgoddard
3salt mined with pickaxe
Juan Arturo Blackmore Zerón


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salt mined with pickaxe


Explanation:
Alcotana es un zapapico o piocha. Creo entonces para entender esto sería traducir la frase: cantidades alcotanas de sal; lo que interpreto: cantidades sacadas con zapapico, quizá en contraposición a las sacadas con maquinaria o herramientas otras.
Y se refiere necesariamente a la sal de mina o roca/mined salt) y no de mar (salt harvest).

https://www.ferreteriaonlinevtc.com/406-alcotanas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickaxe

Juan Arturo Blackmore Zerón
Mexico
Local time: 15:16
Works in field
Native speaker of: Spanish
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +5
allocthonous


Explanation:
It's a typo for alóctanas.

2. geol. [Material] que se origina en un lugar distinto al de su yacimiento primitivo y que ha sido transportado por algún agente geológico:
se ha producido una acumulación de materiales alóctonos en el fondo del valle.

3. geol. [Suelo, roca o formación] geológica cuyos materiales proceden de otros yacimientos:
rocas alóctonas.

allocthonous. Adjective. Of rocks, deposits, etc.; found in a place other than where they and their constituents were formed.
http://www.yourdictionary.com/allocthonous

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Note added at 3 hrs (2019-04-28 02:32:07 GMT)
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http://www.wordreference.com/definicion/alóctono

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Note added at 3 hrs (2019-04-28 02:33:23 GMT)
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Hence "Como resultado de estos movimientos".

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Note added at 14 hrs (2019-04-28 13:21:57 GMT)
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In Dutch, "allochtoon" is a fairly common word for "immigrant", ie "person from a different soil".

philgoddard
United States
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 20
Grading comment
Thanks a bunch Phil!
Notes to answerer
Asker: Wow! Good eye Phil! I also understood it as a pickax, but had no idea how that would have been shoehorned into that phrase.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  neilmac: Well spotted!
4 hrs

agree  bigedsenior: allocthonous salt seems to be a fascinating sub-branch of geology
4 hrs

agree  Wendy Streitparth
6 hrs

agree  Charles Davis: Well done! Alóctono, not alóctano, in Spanish, and allochthonous, not allocthonous, in English (though the latter seems to admitted as a variant). A word that's often misspelt, not surprisingly.
1 day 16 hrs

agree  Thomas Walker: Brilliant, Phil. I'm a degreed geologist, & it didn't come to me...
2 days 12 hrs
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