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detritus 1. a loose mass of stones, silt, etc., worn away from rocks 2. the organic debris formed from the decay of organisms detritus [də′trīd·əs] (ecology) Dead plants and corpses or cast-off parts of various organisms. (geology) Any loose material removed directly from rocks and minerals by mechanical means, such as disintegration or abrasion. 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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Common textures generated by mechanical compaction include thinning of laminate between, and draping over, concretions; flattening of burrows, fenestrae, gas-escape structures, desiccation cracks, and skeletal or detrital grains; rotated grains; spalling of coated grains; swirling structures; telescoping (conversion of grain-poor to grain-supported textures); and planar to curviplanar grain contacts. The maximum thickness of the detrital sediments of the Delta to date is approximately 8,000 meters (Hospers 1965). Most of the team's mudstone grains shared few textural features with detrital quartz. |
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