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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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Indeed they were pebbly mudstones, probably products of submarine slump'.
Chatterjee and his colleagues at Texas Tech University in Lubbock discovered the fossils of at least two individuals in West Texas mudstones, a type of rock that wouldn't preserve soft feathers.
The ridge is cored by a dacitic complex composed of non-welded to welded crystal tuffs and lithic tuffs intercalated with silicified epiclastics, generally mudstones.
 
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