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diamictite [dīยทə′mik‚tīt] (petrology) A calcareous, terrigenous sedimentary rock that is not sorted or poorly sorted and contains particles of many sizes. Also known as mixtite. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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First, the Snowball model is based on stratigraphic analyses, which, to borrow Harland and Herod's (1975) phrase are 'sedimentologically unsophisticated" Old, and by now very shop-worn assumptions that poorly sorted diamictite facies must be continental tillites deposited below ice sheets, and any fine-grained, rhythmically laminated facies are glaciolacustrine varvites, can still be found in the Snowball literature (Hoffman et al. At this site, baseball-size cobbles got mixed with a slurry of fine silt and sand to form a rock called diamictite. |
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