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| French | English |
| coqs de roche | cotingas (Cotingidae) |
| fibre de roche | mineral fibre |
| industrie des terres et des roches minérales | mineral rock and earths industry |
| laine de roche | rock wool A generic term for felted or matted fibers manufactured by blowing or spinning threads of molten rock, slag, or glass. The material is used for thermal insulation |
| mécanique des roches | rock mechanics The theoretical and applied science of the physical behavior of rocks, representing a "branch of mechanics concerned with the response of rock to the force fields of its physical environment" |
| roche compacte | solid rock |
| roche de fond | bed rock |
| roche-magasin | containing rock |
| roche noire | dark rock |
| roche plate calcaire pré-cambrienne | precambrian calcareous flatrock |
| roche sous-jacente | outcropping rock |
| roche sous-jacente | underground |
| roche stérile | waste rock |
| sol sur roches primitives | basement soil |