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clast [klast] (geology) An individual grain, fragment, or constituent of detrital sediment or sedimentary rock produced by physical breakdown of a larger mass. 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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2) Grouse Property - located 7 km SE of Barkerville along Grouse Creek: 6 holes, 825 m to test alteration and mineralization at contact of limestone and clastic rock. The BPV property, one mile west of CONO is underlain by upper-plate clastic rocks and chert but lower-plate carbonate rocks may occur at depths that could be economically attractive. Disseminated gold and silver mineralization occurs in stratabound zones spatially related to a regional slip fault zone lying at the unconformity between Lower Carboniferous limestones and overlying Upper Triassic clastic rocks. |
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