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mudstone
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mudstone [′məd‚stōn]
(geology)
An indurated equivalent of mud in the form of a blocky or massive, fine-grained sedimentary rock containing approximately equal proportions of silt and clay; lacks the fine lamination or fissility of shale.


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A SPECIAL one-mile walk will let people discover the sandstones, mudstones and fossils around Brockholes.
The silty limey mudstones or limestones of the Undifferentiated Chouteau/ McCraney seem to contain more whole Graptolites, which may represent the environment from which the Graptolites lived.
These rocks are of significant commercial importance and comprise a series of porous, clean, pellet and fossiliferous limestones with interbedded tight (often stylolitic lime) mudstones and packstones.
 
 
 
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