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... 2 KB (219 words) - 16:16, 21 February 2024 |
In geology, a clastic wedge is a thick accumulation of sediments or sedimentary rocks eroded and deposited landward of a mountain chain or geological... 5 KB (548 words) - 13:27, 27 March 2024 |
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... 9 KB (933 words) - 08:03, 22 April 2024 |
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... 21 KB (2,556 words) - 16:04, 18 April 2024 |
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... 19 KB (2,195 words) - 03:52, 1 March 2024 |
organic growths in water (sedimentation). This process causes clastic sediments (pieces of rock) or organic particles (detritus) to settle and accumulate... 31 KB (3,311 words) - 01:21, 18 April 2024 |
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... 22 KB (2,952 words) - 21:36, 18 August 2023 |
fragments (clastic sedimentary rock), the accumulation and lithification of material generated by living organisms (biogenic sedimentary rock - fossils)... 19 KB (2,225 words) - 15:02, 1 March 2024 |
Ma) in Malaysia is the Machinchang Formation, composed of quartzose clastic rock formations, in Langkawi; the other known example, the Jerai Formation... 31 KB (2,661 words) - 10:13, 19 April 2024 |
to: Cobble (geology), a designation of particle size for sediment or clastic rock Cobblestone, partially rounded rocks used for road paving Hammerstone... 655 bytes (112 words) - 08:02, 6 January 2019 |
rock made of calcium carbonate Chert – Hard, fine-grained sedimentary rock composed of cryptocrystalline silica Claystone – Clastic sedimentary rock composed... 14 KB (2,207 words) - 23:33, 16 April 2024 |
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... 20 KB (2,147 words) - 02:28, 24 November 2023 |
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... 81 KB (10,308 words) - 05:35, 19 January 2024 |
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)... 9 KB (1,091 words) - 14:56, 1 March 2024 |
Conglomerate (geology) (redirect from Conglomerate rock) Conglomerate (/kənˈɡlɒmərɪt/) is a clastic sedimentary rock that is composed of a substantial fraction of rounded to subangular gravel-size clasts. A conglomerate... 16 KB (1,817 words) - 06:18, 7 March 2024 |
Uygur Autonomous Region in Xinjiang.This formation contains Volcano-clastic rock with interbeds of purple conglomerate, felsitic porphyry, quartz porphyry... 1 KB (62 words) - 05:03, 2 July 2023 |
Hirbemerdon Tepe was built on a continental clastic rock structure dating back to the Pliocene era. This rock structure mostly consists of whitish, light... 30 KB (4,275 words) - 01:12, 10 January 2024 |
the Uncompahgre uplift, the Paradox Formation abruptly transitions to clastic rock assigned to the undivided Hermosa Group. To the southwest, the basin... 12 KB (1,353 words) - 16:58, 3 November 2023 |
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... 4 KB (395 words) - 20:46, 22 July 2023 |