Meaning of "wall rock" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF WALL ROCK

wall rock

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WALL ROCK

Wall rock is a noun.

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WHAT DOES WALL ROCK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Wall rock

Wall rock is the rock that constitutes the wall of an area undergoing geologic activity. Examples are the rock along the neck of a volcano, on the edge of a pluton that is being emplaced, along a fault plane, enclosing a mineral deposit, or where a vein or dike is being emplaced. In volcanoes, wall rock can often become broken off of the wall and incorporated into the erupted volcanic rock as xenoliths. These xenoliths are important to geologists because they can come from rock units that are otherwise not exposed at the Earth's surface.

Definition of wall rock in the English dictionary

The definition of wall rock in the dictionary is rock that is immediately adjacent to a mineral vein, fault, or igneous intrusion.

TRANSLATION OF WALL ROCK

Find out the translation of wall rock to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of wall rock from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «wall rock» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 围岩
• Translator English - Spanish: pared de roca
• English: wall rock
• Translator English - Hindi: दीवार रॉक
• Translator English - Arabic: الجدار الصخري
• Translator English - Russian: вмещающих пород
• Translator English - Portuguese: parede de pedra
• Translator English - Bengali: প্রাচীর রক
• Translator English - French: paroi rocheuse
• Translator English - Malay: Batu dinding
• Translator English - German: Gestein
• Translator English - Japanese: 壁岩
• Translator English - Korean: 벽 바위
• Translator English - Javanese: Tembok rock
• Translator English - Vietnamese: đá tường
• Translator English - Tamil: சுவர் ராக்
• Translator English - Marathi: भिंत रॉक
• Translator English - Turkish: Duvar kaya
• Translator English - Italian: parete di roccia
• Translator English - Polish: Skalna ściana
• Translator English - Ukrainian: вміщають порід
• Translator English - Romanian: Rock perete
• Translator English - Greek: τοίχο βράχου
• Translator English - Afrikaans: muur rock
• Translator English - Swedish: vägg vagga
• Translator English - Norwegian: vegg stein

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WALL ROCK»

Discover the use of wall rock in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to wall rock and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Scale of Pluton/wall Rock Interaction Near May Lake, ...

The western outer granodiorite of the Tuolumne Intrusive Suite intruded a variety of metasedimentary wall rocks at 93.1 +/- 0.1 Ma. The May Lake metamorphic screen (4500 x 550 m) is a remnant of the chemically diverse metasedimentary host ...

Ryan Douglas Mills, 2008

Official Catalogue of Exhibitors

Boise Stone Co., Boise, Ada County. Sand stone. Boulder Creek Mining Co., Warm Springs, Blain Co. Lend, silver ore and wall rock. Boulder Creek Corp. Mining Co., Warm Springs, Blain County. Gold, silver, copper and wall rock. Bridgeport ...

‎1915

Final Report of the California World's Fair Commission: ...

Wall rock (hanging and foot) Keystone Mine Amador. Wall rock (hanging and foot ) Kennedy Mine... Amador. Wall rock (hanging and foot) Zeile Mine Amador. Wall rock (hanging and foot) McCreighton Mine Calaveras. Wall rock (hanging and ...

California World's Fair Commission, 1894

Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly ... of ...

Wall rock (hanging and foot; .......... .. Keystone Mine ........... .. Amador. Wall rock ( hanging and foot ______ -- Kennedy Mine ______ -. .. Amador. Wall rock ( hanging and foot) .......... -- Zeile Mine ............ -. -. Amador Wall rock (hanging and foot) .

California, 1895

Geodynamic Evolution of East Antarctica: A Key to the ...

The alteration selvedges adjacent to Early Palaeozoic pegmatites addressed here suggest contrasting patterns of K, Na and Ca geochemical patterns, which, we will show, are fundamentally controlled by the wall-rock feldspar mineralogy and ...

M. Satish-Kumar, 2008

Advanced Well Completion Engineering

As mentioned earlier, if the maximum tensile stress borne by the borehole wall rock exceeds the tensile strength of rock, tension fracture or tensile failure may occur. This is specifically reflected by causing the borehole wall rock to be infirm and ...

Wan Renpu, 2011

Rock Mechanics in Underground Construction: ISRM ...

Mechanical transitional characteristics of rock mass in deep mining Since the synthetized influence of HHHD action is very strong in deep mining, geological mechanical environment around the wall rock mass of mine engineering is evidently ...

‎2006

Journal: Appendix. Reports

2140. Vein matter, foot wall, Euchre Bar Mine, Placer County. 2141. Vein matter, near the hanging wall, Euchre Bar mine, Placer County. 4463. Vein matter, Santa Anita Mine, Poorman's Creek, Nevada County. 432. Wall rock of 431, two and a ...

California. Legislature, 1887

Rock Fragmentation by Blasting: Fragblast 10

Therefore damage to the wall rock was controlled by adopting pre-split blasting. This paper discusses in detail the design and field implementation of pre-split blasts successfully carried out for the construction of nuclear power plant.

Pradeep K. Singh, Amalendu Sinha, 2012

Rock Mechanics: Achievements and Ambitions

In the paper, FLAC is used to simulate the mining process of the stope room & pillar step by step excavation and back filling, and to study the affecting law of wall rock stress-strain distributing and migration on different rate of paste supporting ...

Meifeng Cai, 2011