Tuvan Autogenic Geological Terms and a Short Russian-Tuvan-English Geological Dictionary

This short dictionary is the first attempt to systematize information about the Tuvan names of things and phenomena related to geology, mining, and resources obtained after processing of mineral raw materials. Here we find a very brief Russian-Tuvan geological dictionary containing 131 terms, of which 49 terms are proposed for use for the first time, including 16 terms as additional to those already available in the above dictionaries. In the brief Russian-Tuvan-English geological dictionary, terms related to chemical elements account for about 8 percent of their total amount, to metals and their alloys about 15 percent, to minerals about 15 percent, to mineral aggregates, rocks, and ores about 42 percent, and to other terms about 20 percent. The 11 chemical elements consist of ten metals and one nonmetal

Earth science · Geochemistry · Metal · Metallurgy · Mineral · Mineral resource classification · Mineralogy · Mining engineering · Nonmetal · Cultural, Linguistic, Economic Studies · Geology · Linguistics and language evolution · Marine and environmental studies · Materials Science