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siltstone

[′silt‚stōn]

(geology)

Indurated silt having a shalelike texture and composition. Also known as siltite.

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3), occurs together with dark gray mudstone, silty mudstone and siltstone.

CHARACTERISTICS AND ACCUMULATION OF MIDDLE JURASSIC OIL SHALE IN THE YUQIA AREA, NORTHERN QAIDAM BASIN, NORTHWEST CHINA

5A) that were converted to sandstone and siltstone lithofacies (Fig.

Biostratigraphy, depositional environment and sequence stratigraphy of Late Cretaceous clastic-evaporite-carbonate deposits, east of Central Iran, Bajestan

In some of the outcrops along Kohala-Muzaffarabad road the clay was dominating and the sandstones were embedded in clay matrix where as near to Muzaffarabad and along the route of Neelum Jhelum tunnel sandstone and siltstone were dominating.

ASSESSMENT OF ABRASION CHARACTERISTICS OF CRUSHED AGGREGATE FROM MURREE FORMATION OF MIOCENE AGE

In this study, six standard grades of weathered siltstone [15] were investigated in a flysch weathering profile (Figure 5(a)).

Weathering influence on properties of siltstones from Istria, Croatia

Fine sandstones, sometimes bearing hummocky cross stratification, and siltstones are the main lithologies of the Tatui Formation.

The Tatui Formation (Early Permian, Parana Basin), Brazil: Paleontology and Paleoenvironmental Considerations/La Formacion Tatui (Permico Temprano, Cuenca del Parana), Brasil: Consideraciones paleontologicas y paleoambientales

The drill hole intersected a host sequence of pale green, laminated argillaceous siltstone and mudstone for its entire length.

Minotaur Exploration Limited (ASX:MEP) Drilling Update - Copper Lake, Nova Scotia

The Bloomsburg Red Beds exhibit well-defined, fining-upward sequences, and comprise fine to coarse grained sandstone grading upward into siltstone and shale (Smith, 1967).

First record of a horseshoe crab trackway from the Bloomsburg Red Beds (Silurian: Ludlow Series) of New Jersey

The Turtle Butte Formation was deposited by a meandering stream system evident by sandy siltstone and claystone floodplain deposits and conglomeratic paleochannel deposits.

The paleontology and biostratigraphy of the Turtle Butte Formation, Tripp County, South Dakota

Siltstone samples especially show undulated data paths confirming a jagged type of L-D pattern.

A new approach for the determination of onset of failure points during laboratory strength testing of rocks

The Weldon Formation is a thick succession of mudstone interbedded with red siltstone and red to brown sandstone, for which a thickness of at least 300 m is proven from boreholes.

Cleavages developed in mudstone during diagenesis and deformation: an example from the Carboniferous (Tournaisian), southeastern New Brunswick, Canada

comprising mainly quartzose sandstone, shale siltstone and few conglomerate from the underlying Siwalik rocks (Tamrakar et al.

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

This bed is both underlain and overlain by fine quartz sandstone, interbedded with micaceous siltstone beds, some of which preserve a well-developed Cruziana ichnofacies association.

A unique exposure of Cambrian megaripples in the Hampton Formation, Unicoi County, Tennessee

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