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    Mudcracks (also known as mud cracks, desiccation cracks or cracked mud) are sedimentary structures formed as muddy sediment dries and contracts. Crack...
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    Y (game) (redirect from Mudcrack Y)
    it is just as playable on a regular triangle. Schensted and Titus' book Mudcrack Y & Poly-Y has a large number of boards for play of Y, all hand-drawn;...
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    to their original volume. This produces distinctive textures, such as mudcracks or "popcorn" texture, in clay deposits. Soils containing swelling clay...
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    first form at the surface, the cracks are dominated by T-junctions, like mudcracks, because they were formed individually. One crack would form and move...
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    environments where currents reverse directions, such as tidal flats. Mudcracks are a bed form caused by the dehydration of sediment that occasionally...
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  • Schensted, C.; Titus, Charles (1970), Mudcrack Y, NEO Press, ISBN 978-0-911014-08-2 Schensted, C. (1975), Mudcrack Y & poly-Y, NEO Press, ISBN 978-0-911014-23-5...
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    themselves in mud (wallowing) to cool off. Sludge Drilling mud Muck (soil) Mudcrack Mudcrete Mud flap Mud volcano Peloid Mudflat Mahajan, Bhushan (2020-06-01)...
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    objects such as car doors or drink cans. Tessellation is apparent in the mudcrack-like cracking of thin films – with a degree of self-organisation being...
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    verify the authenticity of artwork with high accuracy. Crazing Patina Mudcrack Bucklow, Spike (1997). "The Description of Craquelure Patterns". Studies...
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    plants while the sediment layers consist of thin sand and mud layers. Mudcracks are a common as well as wavy bedding planes. Marshes are also the origins...
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    average direction of these can be assumed to be the axis of flow direction. Mudcracks form when mud is dewatered, shrinks, and leaves a crack. This tells you...
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    quartz-rich of interlayered red argillite and siltite characterized by mudcracks and interstratified with abundant white, crossbedded quartzite and sandstone...
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    after closing the entrance; this adaption protects the pupae against mudcracks when the mud dries up, as a spreading crack would change direction when...
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    outcrop). In sedimentary rocks this may include sole markings, ripple marks, mudcracks and cross-bedding. These are recorded as they are generally characteristic...
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  • argillite, siltstone and sandstone; argillaceous and stromatolitic dolomite; mudcracks and ripple marks are common. shallow marine (peritidal) 1,300 m (4,270 ft)...
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    medium-gray sandstone, and greenish-gray and grayish-red shale with mudcracks. This conglomerate consists of pebbles and cobbles of white vein quartz...
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    dinosaur fossils.) Middle Sangonghe megasequence (169-195 Ma) (Presence of mudcracks in lower unit, coal red beds and dinosaur tracks at the top unit. Petrified...
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    or random crack network is a mathematical model for the formation of mudcracks, needle-like crystals, and similar structures. It is named after Edgar...
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    invaded a growing desert (see 6b in figure 1). Some Coconino fills deep mudcracks in the underlying Hermit Shale and the desert that created the Coconino...
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    suggest seasonal precipitation. Rocks also included dinosaur tracks, mudcracks, and fossils of crustaceans and fish, which provide climate evidence,...
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    observed. It is possible that the Sun's heat is causing fractures similar to mudcracks in a dry lake bed. This occurs because Phaethon's orbit takes it closer...
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    lakes, woods and forests. Many fossil traces (footprints, ripple marks, mudcracks) indicate that swampy areas, which were the most extensive habitat, were...
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  • is the fact that the lunar surface is crisscrossed with gaping cracks. Mudcracks would imply that the surface was once mud, which requires water, and the...
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    textures in boulders take on the form of channels, grooves, "potholes", "mudcracks", and intense pitting. In some cases, the textures are so distinctive...
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    rock around them. Later, when erosion took place, ridges were exposed. Mudcracks as seen by Curiosity in Gale. Shapes imply that water saturated the area...
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    formed subaqueously on the bedding surface and could resemble desiccation mudcracks, but are not continuous and vary in shape. They commonly occur in thin...
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    of this pollen doesn't indicate proper dry conditions, as for example mudcrack and other indicators of strong dry seasons are mostly absent, while common...
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    'plates' that tend to be concave upward, that characterizes the formation of mudcracks in fine-grained sediments. Often, the outlines of the polygons formed...
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    Emerald Pool Trail, and it is properly called Navajo, not Kayenta. Fossil mudcracks attest to occasional seasonal climate, and thin limestones and fossilized...
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    proportions of smectite and mica, frequent slickensides, wedge-shaped crevices (mudcracks in cross-section), and strong redoximorphic features such as gleying and...
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