Clastic rocks are composed of fragments, or clasts, of pre-existing minerals and rock. A clast is a fragment of geological detritus, chunks, and smaller...
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formed by impacts, volcanism, and other minor processes. Clastic sedimentary rocks are composed of rock fragments (clasts) that have been cemented together...
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A clastic dike is a seam of sedimentary material that fills an open fracture in and cuts across sedimentary rock strata or layering in other rock types...
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Arenite (redirect from Arenaceous rock)
Arenite (from the Latin arena, "sand") is a sedimentary clastic rock with sand grain size between 0.0625 mm (0.00245 in) and 2 mm (0.08 in) and containing...
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Roundness (geology) (section Paleogeographic value of determining the degree of roundness of clastic material)
the genetic affiliation of a clastic rock. The degree of roundness points to the range and mode of transport of clastic material, and can also serve as...
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In geology, a clastic wedge is a thick accumulation of sediments or sedimentary rocks eroded and deposited landward of a mountain chain or geological...
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Petrophysics (redirect from Rock physics)
detector is very sensitive, and the amount of radiation is very low. In clastic rock formations, rocks with smaller amounts of radiation are more likely to...
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to: Cobble (geology), a designation of particle size for sediment or clastic rock Cobblestone, partially rounded rocks used for road paving Hammerstone...
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Shale (redirect from Shale (sedimentary rock))
Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g., kaolin...
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Monica fault zone. The central block contains both marine and non-marine clastic rock units interbedded with volcanic rocks that are late Cretaceous to Pliocene...
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organic growths in water (sedimentation). This process causes clastic sediments (pieces of rock) or organic particles (detritus) to settle and accumulate...
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metamorphosed and folded Lower Palaeozoic carbonaceous and sulphidic clastic rock referred to as the Besopan Formation. The Besopan Formation was metamorphosed...
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Ma) in Malaysia is the Machinchang Formation, composed of quartzose clastic rock formations, in Langkawi; the other known example, the Jerai Formation...
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Dike (geology) (section Clastic dikes)
sheet intrusion, either cutting across layers of rock or through a contiguous mass of rock. Clastic dikes are formed when sediment fills a pre-existing...
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alluvium. This alluvium is adjacent to and probably underlain by volcanic clastic rock deposited by Mount Shasta in the course of its development. Groundwater...
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Soft carbonate rock Chert – Hard, fine-grained sedimentary rock composed of cryptocrystalline silica Claystone – Clastic sedimentary rock composed primarily...
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fragments (clastic sedimentary rock), the accumulation and lithification of material generated by living organisms (biogenic sedimentary rock - fossils)...
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Fossil collecting (section Rock type)
of burial is the non-clastic rock, form where the rock is made up of the precipitation of compacted fossil material, types of rock include limestone and...
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pillow lavas and minor radiolarian cherts Indus Molasse, a continental clastic rock sequence (with rare interbeds of marine saltwater sediments) comprising...
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Catuneau, O. (2007). Atlas of Microbial Mat Features Preserved within the Clastic Rock Record. Elsevier. pp. 53–71. ISBN 9780444528599. Yochelson, E. L.; Fedonkin...
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characterized by individual crystals or clastic grains less than 0.01 mm in diameter. aphanitic Said of the texture of igneous rock in which the crystalline components...
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in search of food. Organic clastic bedding can become shale and oil shale or millions of years under pressure. Clastic rock Allaby, Michael, ed. (2013)...
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in regions of relatively low stress within the same rock or their complete removal from the rock within the fluid. It is an example of diffusive mass...
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recording the field commonly is hematite, another iron oxide. Redbeds, clastic sedimentary rocks (such as sandstones) that are red primarily because of...
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Pyroclastic rocks are clastic rocks composed of rock fragments produced and ejected by explosive volcanic eruptions. The individual rock fragments are known...
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Uygur Autonomous Region in Xinjiang.This formation contains Volcano-clastic rock with interbeds of purple conglomerate, felsitic porphyry, quartz porphyry...
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Hirbemerdon Tepe was built on a continental clastic rock structure dating back to the Pliocene era. This rock structure mostly consists of whitish, light...
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Microfractures within Sand Mountain clastic rock along with the blocky, equant shapes and density of sideromelane and tachylite clastic rock in the field suggest that...
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sciences portal Paleontology portal Dinosaurs portal List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations Xi, D.; Wan, X.; Li, G.; Li, G. (2018). "Cretaceous integrative...
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Bend Arch–Fort Worth Basin (section Source rock)
System (TPS). Oil and gas in Province 045 are produced from carbonate and clastic rock reservoirs ranging in age from the Ordovician to the Permian. The 1995...
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