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clastic

[′klas·tik]

(geology)

Rock or sediment composed of clasts which have been transported from their place of origin, as sandstone and shale.

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Geological formation around this epicenter consists of clastic and carbonate rocks.

A new empirical relation between surface wave magnitude and rupture length for Turkey earthquakes

Figures 15(d) and 15(e) demonstrate the significant advantage of the [[lambda].sub.p], [[micro].sub.p] cross-plot in isolating both lithologic properties (such as sand, shale, and clastic facies) as well as the gas zone compared to IP and IS cross-plot.

Rational rock physics for improved velocity prediction and reservoir properties estimation for granite wash (tight sands) in Anadarko Basin, Texas

Results indicate that facies of Tokerau Clastics and Mangakahia complex of the Northland Allocution rocks plot within the recycled orogenic fields while samples from Omahutta facies of the Motatau Complex fall in the transitional and Craton interior zones.

MODAL ANALYSIS OF SANDSTONE AND SILTSTONE LITHOFACIES FROM NORTHLAND ALLOCHTHON ROCKS, NEW ZEALAND

Nomenclature and classification of clastic and argillaceous sediments.

Roundness and surface features of quartz grains in Middle Devonian deposits of the East Baltic and their palaeogeographical implications/ Kvartsterade umardatus ja pealispinna reljeef Pohja-Baltikumi Devoni kivimites ning nende paleogeograafiline tahtsus

Quartzite is a common clastic constituent in the modal composition and range from 21 to 66% (FIGURE 5).

Relacion entre los sedimentos clasticos fluviales y la abundancia de la roca fuente en la cuenca del rio Rapti en los himalayas de la parte central de Nepal

They indicated that this graphical procedure "may be used by practicing environmental geochemists and by students in laboratory exercises in environmental science courses at the college or even high school level." Faure and Mensing (2005) extended the utilization of this graphical representation beyond hydrogeology to "the formation of clastic sedimentary rocks composed of mixtures of grains of different minerals or rock types." An example of the procedure that Petz-Faure called a Mixing Triangle is depicted in Figure 1a.

Simplification of the Petz-Faure graphic procedure for resolving three component mixtures (1)

The patchy distribution of pockets rich in clastic material is observed in the Kernave and Leivu formations.

Lithology and evolution of Devonian carbonate and carbonate-cemented rocks in Estonia/Karbonaatsete ja karbonaatse tsemendiga kivimite litoloogia ja evolutsioon Eesti Devoni labiloikes

It is hosted within an upper Paleozoic, shallow marine, clastic sedimentary succession dominated by shale, siltstone, arkosic sandstone, and fine pebble to cobble conglomerate.

Canada. (Explorations)

1971) recognises 2 principal units in these sediments: deposits of coarse clastic sediments and limestone.

Palygorskite-cemented crusts (palycretes) in Southern Portugal

The clastic (non-carbonate, inorganic) content of each sample, principally silicates, iron and aluminum oxides, was calculated by subtracting organic matter and calcium carbonate content from total sample dry weight.

Accelerated soil erosion in watersheds of Yunnan Province, China

The claims are underlain by limey, fine-grained clastic and chert strata of the Ordovician/Silurian Vinini Formation thrust over the similar lithological units of the Devonian Rodeo Creek Formation and intruded by post-Paleozoic igneous rocks.

Carlin trend update

The Anderson Formation clastic reservoirs are a deeper secondary conventional oil target below 1,800 metres.