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siltstone

[′silt‚stōn]
(geology)
Indurated silt having a shalelike texture and composition. Also known as siltite.
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Frequent alternation of light sandy quartzose siltstone and black shale, with siltstone prevailing.
The stratotype of the Orasoja Member (Tremadocian, Northeast Estonia): lithology, mineralogy, and biostratigraphy/Orasoja kihistiku (Tremadocian, Kirde-Eesti) stratotuup: litoloogia, mineraloogia ja biostratigraafia
Core Depth in feet Lithology Type of analysis WM-8 246 Shale Palynology WM-8 321 Limestone Palynology WM-8 422 Shale Palynology WM-8 523 Underclay Palynology WM-10 175 Limestone Palynology WM-10 258 Limestone Thin section WM-10 330 Shale Palynology WM-10 450 Limestone Palynology WM-10 452 Limestone Thin section WM-10 537 Siltstone Palynology WM-10 627 Shale Palynology WM-10 683 Sandstone Thin section WM-10 704 Siltstone with interbeds Thin section of very fine sandstone Descriptions of dispersed organic matter in the samples.
Sedimentology, Palynology, and Sea Level Fluctuations Recorded From Two Pennsylvanian Cores From Northwestern Missouri
The conglomerate facies occurs as channel fill within the siltstone facies.
Modified basin and range topography in the Bolson de Mapimi, Durango and Chihuahua, Mexico
Light grey to greenish grey slate and quartzite with some laminated siltstone occur throughout the Napadogan area.
Arenig volcanic and sedimentary strata, central New Brunswick and eastern Maine
The Grasgard Siltstone in the Gotland area generally resembles the siltstone beds in southern Estonia in respect of the noncarbonate component.
Facies and stratigraphy of the middle Caradoc mixed siliciclastic-carbonate sediments in eastern Baltoscandia/ Kesk-Caradoci terrigeensete-karbonaatsete segasetendite faatsiesed ja stratigraafia Baltoskandia idaosas/[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]
The Cooper Canyon Formation consists of reddish brown to reddish orange siltstone and mudstone, with interbedded lenses of olive gray and pale reddish brown fine to medium-grained sandstone and conglomerate.
The Cooper Canyon Formation (Late Triassic) of western Texas
8 Type of rock thill / compressive strength: claystone and siltstone slabozwiezle / 2.
Coal or rock-cutting machinery
The Braemar Iron Formation is a magnetite siltstone that stretches for over 200km, from Carpentaria's Hawsons Iron Project in NSW to its South Dam Joint Venture in South Australia.
Carpentaria Exploration Limited (ASX:CAP) Forms New Joint Venture to Strengthen Braemar Iron Holdings
Nevertheless, this evidence and the siltstone slab prints suggest that multiple tiny pterosaurs called Japan home from at least 113 to 127 million years ago.
Pterodactyls hung out with birds in prehistoric Japan
On an unnamed brook west of Public Landing, basalt with a cherty hematite base is underlain by red sandstone, maroon and green siltstone and thin- to medium-bedded, yellowish-tan ash beds and very thinly laminated dark grey mudstone with chaotic bedding.
Contrasting geology in the Pocologan River and Long Reach areas: implications for the New River belt and correlations in Southern New Brunswick and Maine
The scientists recovered the 70-million-year-old fossils--along with those of fish, crocodiles, and dinosaurs--from a 3-m-thick layer of siltstone in a quarry near La Solana, about 40 kilometers southwest of Valencia.
Large shadows fell on Cretaceous landscape
A shoreland section at Monks Head in northern mainland Nova Scotia exposes a structurally complex package of interbedded limestone, gypsum, and siltstone of the Visean Windsor Group.
The style of Late Paleozoic deformation in the Antigonish Basin: an example from the Monks Head section, Antigonish, Nova Scotia. (Atlantic Universities Geological Conference 2000)

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