olistolith

[ə′lis·tə‚lith]

(geology)

An exotic block or other rock mass that has been transported by submarine gravity sliding or slumping and is included in the binder of an olistostrome.

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It is discussed in Abbots (1989) that upper slope deposits occur on the island of Cabrera, geologically part of the Sierra de Levante but separated from Mallorca to the SSW, Abbots (1989) reinterpreted what was described as a "conjugate olistolith" by Arbona et al.

Sedimentology of a middle Jurassic base-of-slope environment, Cutri Formation, Mallorca

It is a large calcareous olistolith that was described by van de Graaff (1971b) and contains small colonies of auloporid corals in growth position.

(2007) and Cozar and Rodriguez (2004).These localities correspond to Visean olistoliths in Serpukhovian olistostromes.

Carboniferous auloporids from the Iberian Peninsula: palaeocology, diversity, and spatio-temporal distribution

The only other known Ordovician species of the genus is Diencobolus naukatensis (Holmer, Popov & Bassett, 2000) from the Lower Ordovician (presumably Floian) olistolith in the Silurian Pulgon Formation of the Alai Range in southern Kyrgyzstan.

Early Ordovician (Tremadocian) brachiopods from the Eastern Alborz Mountains, Iran/Vara-Ordoviitsiumi (Tremadoci) brahhiopoodid Ida-Alborzi magedest Iraanist

10) including calciturbidites and olistostromes (mega debris flows) containing olistoliths (clasts) as large as automobiles.

A geological excursion to Jebels Rawdah, Buhays and Faiyah

As regards the Upper Ordovician exposed in southern Normandy, based on conodonts and other fossils, the Vaux Limestone as well as limestone olistoliths in the overlying 'Tillite de Feugueroles' ('Pelites a fragments') were dated as Ashgillian (Weyant et al.

Composition and significance of the Katian (Upper Ordovician) conodont fauna of the Vaux Limestone ('Calcaire des Vaux') in Normandy, France

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