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    Peloid is defined as a mature clay, mud or mud suspension or dispersion with curative or cosmetic properties, consisting of a complex mixture of fine-grained...
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    Peloids are allochems that are composed of micrite, irrespective of size, shape, or origin. The two primary types of peloids are pellets and intraclasts...
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    Colombia, Gurjaani, Georgia) Balneotherapy Bath salts Heubad Mud wrap Peloid Wallowing "A meta-analysis of the effectiveness of mud-bath therapy on knee...
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    A peat pulp bath, a form of peloid therapy, is a bath prepared of peat pulp from wetlands. Balneotherapy in form of peat pulp baths is offered in many...
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    when they die. Other carbonate grains composing limestones are ooids, peloids, and limeclasts (intraclasts and extraclasts [ca]). Skeletal grains have...
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    Borsec (Hungarian: Borszék, pronounced [ˈborseːk] ) is a town in Harghita County, Transylvania, Romania. The town and the surrounding areas are well known...
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    Heinrich Kisch Destination spa Hot spring Hydrotherapy Mineral spa Onsen Peloid Thalassotherapy Angus Stevenson, ed. (2007). "Definition of balneo therapy"...
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    There is mineral water and peloid present. The peloid was found at the end of the 19th century. In the 20th century, the peloid was largely expended by the...
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    Another draw to the area is a wide array of health resorts. Brine and peloid, discovered in the 19th century, together with geothermal water resources...
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    Sludge Drilling mud Muck (soil) Mudcrack Mudcrete Mud flap Mud volcano Peloid Mudflat Mahajan, Bhushan (2020-06-01). "15 Types Of Building Materials Used...
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  • waters of thermal springs and by their derived products, such as (CO₂-)gas, peloid mud, etc. Heir to a practice dating back several centuries, the therapeutic...
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    Thin section photomicrograph of peloid packstone with fragmented bioclasts....
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    services. These spas typically use balneotherapy, employing a variety of peloids. "Balneotherapy treatments can have different purposes. In a spa setting...
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    to the latest proposal for a new definition, by Gomes at al. (2013), a “peloid is a maturated mud or muddy dispersion with healing and/or cosmetic properties...
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    treat disease). Many traditional spa treatments include peat as part of peloids. Such health treatments have an enduring tradition in European countries...
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    Small peloids are common, but are fused into large and irregular groups, which indicate they were deposited in a water-logged setting. Peloids may represent...
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    as a peloid (therapeutic mud) for use in pelotherapy (mud therapy). Pelotherapy can have medical or cosmetic purposes; a mixture of the peloid with lake...
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    PMID 20098416. S2CID 26096413. Aleksaniants GD (2013). "[Use of balneo-, peloid- and centimeter-wave therapy in the complex treatment of patients with circumscribed...
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    Thin section photomicrograph of a peloid packstone with fragmented bioclasts, plane polarised light....
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    replacements of carbonate minerals by phosphates. They also can be composed of peloids, ooids, fossils, and clasts that are made up of apatite. There are some...
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  • describes the presence of peloids (fossilised fecal pellets). May also be used to describe any pellet under 2 mm in diameter (as peloids are often hard to distinguish...
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    The sand starts to form around a nucleus of calcium carbonate, such as a peloid, shell fragment, or foraminifer. The nucleus is coated with a thin layer...
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    preparations, as it is considered ineffective by the USFDA. Diatomaceous earth Peloid Zeolite Fuller's earth For further discussion see: Leclerc, L (1881). Traite...
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    covered by black therapeutic mud, or peloid, which is used for medicinal purposes. The estimated volume of the peloid is about 14 million tons. On the west...
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    Claystone-dominated interval, incised by metric dolomitized beds of Mudstones, Peloid-rich Packstones, Ooid-rich Grainstones, and Polymictic Conglomerates, all...
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    rocks can occur as a matrix, as micrite envelopes around allochems or as peloids. The origin of micrites is still a problem in carbonate sedimentology due...
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    recognisable "grains" in carbonate rocks. Examples would include ooids, peloids, oncolites, pellets, fossil or pre-existing carbonate fragments. Fragments...
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    Kurort Krumbad, Stadt Krumbach (Schwaben), Landkreis Günzburg, Bayern – Peloid-Kurbetrieb + Kneippkurbetrieb Kühlungsborn, Landkreis Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern...
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    also employed to treat phlebological and gynecological disorders. The "Dax Peloid" is a natural medication, obtained from the spa waters along with algae...
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    schist Ice Gabbro from Rum, Scotland Bronzitite Mylonite Carboniferous peloids Anorthosite Cordierite Leucite Diorite Apatite ore, Finland Basalt Ceramography:...
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