A rock fragment, in sedimentary geology, is a sand-sized particle or sand grain that is made up of multiple grains that are connected on the grain scale...
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rocks Pebble – Small rock fragment Cobble (geology) – Clast of rock Boulder – Natural rock fragment larger than 10 inches Rock (building material) Rocks...
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Oldest dated rocks (redirect from Oldest surface rock)
determined that a fragment from one of the rocks, nicknamed Big Bertha, contained "a bit of Earth from about 4 billion years ago". The rock fragment contained...
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genre or to completely ignore it. After the late 1970s, progressive rock fragmented into numerous forms. Some bands achieved commercial success well into...
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Lithic fragments, or lithics, are pieces of other rocks that have been eroded down to sand size and now are sand grains in a sedimentary rock. They were...
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converter's shaft, he was killed when the devices suddenly activated and a rock fragment was propelled right into his face at high speed. She berates Brion for...
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composed of fragments, or clasts, of pre-existing minerals and rock. A clast is a fragment of geological detritus, chunks, and smaller grains of rock broken...
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Boulder (category Rock formations)
In geology, a boulder (or rarely bowlder) is a rock fragment with size greater than 25.6 cm (10.1 in) in diameter. Smaller pieces are called cobbles and...
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Apollo 17 lunar sample display (redirect from Apollo 17 Goodwill Moon rock)
The Apollo 17 lunar sample display consists of a Moon rock fragment from a lava Moon stone identified as lunar basalt 70017, the recipient's flag and...
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Floater (geology) (category Rock formations)
within a soil or weathering profile. A floater can also be a bigger rock fragment that is detached from the underlying bedrock. Floaters or floats are...
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A xenolith ("foreign rock") is a rock fragment (country rock) that becomes enveloped in a larger rock during the latter's development and solidification...
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Uluru (redirect from Ayer's Rock)
conglomerate. Average composition is 50% feldspar, 25–35% quartz and up to 25% rock fragments; most feldspar is K-feldspar with only minor plagioclase as subrounded...
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Scree is a collection of broken rock fragments at the base of a cliff or other steep rocky mass that has accumulated through periodic rockfall. Landforms...
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and small rock fragments or sand-size lithic fragments set in a compact, clay-fine matrix. It is a texturally immature sedimentary rock generally found...
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000 recorded rock art sites in Australia. The oldest firmly dated rock-art painting in Australia is a charcoal drawing on a rock fragment found during...
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(larger than 62.5 micrometers) or a finer-grained fragment of another rock type, called a lithic fragment (e.g. a sand-sized piece of shale). These counts...
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clastic rocks composed of rock fragments produced and ejected by explosive volcanic eruptions. The individual rock fragments are known as pyroclasts. Pyroclastic...
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BRESH-ee-ə, Italian: [ˈbrettʃa]; Italian for 'breach') is a rock composed of large angular broken fragments of minerals or rocks cemented together by a fine-grained...
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Perched block Also known as a perched boulder or perched rock, this is a large, detached rock fragment that most commonly was transported and deposited by...
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Flows can deposit less than 1 meter to 200 meters in depth of loose rock fragment. The kinetic energy of the moving cloud will flatten trees and buildings...
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potassium and argon measurements, while the newer method requires only one rock fragment or mineral grain and uses a single measurement of argon isotopes. 40Ar/39Ar...
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sedimentary rock composed primarily of carbon Conglomerate – Sedimentary rock composed of smaller rock fragments Coquina – Sedimentary rock that is composed...
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rock veneer is a geomorphic formation in which rock fragments (clasts) of gravel or cobble size form a thin cover over a surface or hillslope. Rock veneers...
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discrete rock fragment formed by the processes of weathering. The inner boundary of a weathering rind approximately parallels the outer surface of the rock fragment...
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than half a kilogram of material was returned. In 1993, three small rock fragments from Luna 16, weighing 200 mg, were sold for US$ 442,500 at Sotheby's...
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A pebble is a clast of rock with a particle size of 4–64 mm (0.16–2.52 in) based on the Udden-Wentworth scale of sedimentology. Pebbles are generally considered...
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Volcaniclastics (redirect from Volcaniclastic rock)
of broken fragments (clasts) of volcanic rock. These encompass all clastic volcanic materials, regardless of what process fragmented the rock, how it was...
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and other minor processes. Clastic sedimentary rocks are composed of rock fragments (clasts) that have been cemented together. The clasts are commonly individual...
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Beachrock (redirect from Beach rock)
beachrock can consist of a variable mixture of shells, coral fragments, rock fragments of different types, and other materials. It can also contain scattered...
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