wackestone


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wackestone

[′wak·ə‚stōn]
(petrology)
A limestone composed of mud (micrite) containing more than 10% particles (grains) with diameters greater than 20 micrometers scattered throughout.
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This belt contains 9 facies: bioclastic wackestone with pelagic bivalve and foraminifera (O1), coral boundstone (O2), marl with foraminifera (O3), bioclastic mudstone mudstone (O4), bioclastic floatstone (O5), bioclastic packstone (O6), sandy bioclastic packstone (O7), bioclastic packstone to grainstone (O8) and bioclastic grainstone (O9) (Figs.
Biostratigraphy, depositional environment and sequence stratigraphy of Late Cretaceous clastic-evaporite-carbonate deposits, east of Central Iran, Bajestan
Petrographically, the dominating thick finely laminated uniform siliceous-carbonate mudstone (MS) oil shale intercalates with variable intervals of grain-bearing oil shale, in which interbeds of proper mudstone alternate with laminae, lenses and thin interbeds of wackestone (WS).
Petrography and mineralogy of the Attarat Um Ghudran oil shale, Central Jordan
Wavy- to horizontal-bedded, lithobioclastic, dolomitic floatstone to skeletal wackestone.
Description of the type section, cyclicity, and correlation of the Riksu Formation (Wenlock, Estonia)/Riksu kihistu (Wenlock) stratotuupse labiloike kirjeldus, tsuklilisus ja korrelatsioon/[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]
These microfacies includes bioclastic grainstone microfacies, bioclastic ooidal peloidal packstone-grainstone microfacies, Siliciclastic bioclastic wackestone microfacies and peloidal mudstone microfacies.
Microfacies analysis and diagenetic settings of the Samana Suk Formation, lower Salhad section, Abbottabad, Pakistan
Thin sections of beds C22/24 and C26 situated immediately above the track surface show, in relative abundance order, fragments of bivalves (ostreids and rudists), benthic foraminifera (Miliolidae, Lituolidae, Textularidae, Ataxofragmiidae), radiolarians (Spumellaria), ostracods, corals (Scleractinia), gastropods, and echinoids in a mainly wackestone texture with biomicritic matrix (Fig.
Dinosaur tracks from the Early Cretaceous (Albian) of Parede (Cascais, Portugal): new contributions for the sauropod palaeobiology of the Iberian Peninsula
The matrix of the reef-core limestone is composed of wackestone to mudstone, with a high probability of a similar mix of authochthonous and allochthonous micrite (Kroger et al.
The early Katian (Late Ordovician) reefs near Saku, northern Estonia and the age of the Saku Member, Vasalemma Formation
The depositional environment depicted is high energy sand shoals, bar, or beach for Grainstone microfacies, inner shelf with moderate water circulation for Packstone microfacies, lagoonal settings with open and restricted circulation for Wackestone microfacies and low energy environment like lagoon and on outer shelf for Mudstone microfacies.
MICROFACIES, DIAGENETIC FABRIC AND DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONEMNT OF THE MIDDLE JURASSIC SAMANA SUK FORMATION AT TARNAWAI SECTION, DISTRICT ABBOTTABAD, PAKISTAN
c) This microfacies is a wackestone (occasionally mudstone) with foraminifera, charophytes, ostracods and gastropods (Fig.
New insights about the Upper Jurassic--Lower Cretaceous sedimentary successions from Asturias (NW Iberian Peninsula)
Carbonate ellipsoidal nodules up to 10 cm in length are scattered amongst the shale and wackestone facies, preferentially located along bedding planes.
Palaeoenvironmental significance of middle Oxfordian deep marine deposits from La Manga Formation, Neuquen Basin, Argentina
Wackestone microfacies, (planktonic bioclastic wackestone and dolomitic bioclastic wackestone as submicrofacies), (3).
MICROFACIES ANALYSIS, DIAGENETIC FABRIC AND DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT OF MIDDLE JURASSIC SAMANA SUK FORMATION KHWARI KHWAR SECTION, NIZAMPUR BASIN, KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA, PAKISTAN
bioclastic wackestone, packstone or grainstone) are common too, and they formed in a large variety of environments (flanks of buildups, shallow tidal flats or storm beds in inner or medial carbonate platforms).
Carboniferous auloporids from the Iberian Peninsula: palaeocology, diversity, and spatio-temporal distribution
2006) noted that Berry & Murphy (1975) found several Ludlow graptolites (Neodiversograptus nilssoni, Saetograptus colonus, Bohemograptus bohemicus) in the Simpson Park I section, Nevada, in the lower part of the lime mudstone wackestone bed of the Roberts Mountain Formation.
Three global carbon isotope shifts in the Silurian of Podolia (Ukraine): stratigraphical implications/ Kolm globaalset susinikisotoopide suhte anomaaliat Podoolia (Ukraina) Siluris: stratigraafilised jareldused
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