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Pelite

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pelite [′pē‚līt]
(geology)
A sediment or sedimentary rock, such as mudstone, composed of fine, clay- or mud-size particles. Also spelled pelyte.
Pelite 

a detrital rock, such as a mudstone, containing more than 50 percent particles less than 0.01–0.005 mm in size. The chief pelites are argillites and clays.
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Uranium deposits in the Athabasca Basin are commonly surrounded by clay alteration and Fission has located a large clay alteration envelope at Discovery Bay: Strongly Altered Basement Pelite with Cross-Cutting Sulfide Vein Based on current interpretation, Hathor geologists think the Roughrider Zone is localized at the intersection of a NE-trending structural envelope and the W-trending metamorphic foliation of basement rocks.
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4) it consists of coarse or fine silt, or of a mixture of silt and pelite (Lutt 1992, pp.
Transport and distribution of bottom sediments at Pirita Beach/ ... by Soomere, Tarmo; Kask, Andres; Kask, Juri; Nerman, Robert / Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences
Our 4T plaice samples were collected at relatively uniform depths (43-88 m), and the substrates in both sampling areas ranged from sandy pelite to sandy gravel and had outcroppings of sandstone bedrock (see Loring and Nota (3)).
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