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
The uppermost part of the stage is represented by fine-grained bioclastic wackestone of the Torremagi Member of the lower Ragavere Formation (Polma et al.
Conodont biostratigraphy of the Oandu Stage (Katian, Upper Ordovician) in NE Estonia/Oandu lademe (Kati, Ulem-Ordoviitsium) konodontidel pohinev biostratigraafia Ida-Eestis
The well exposed Upper Sinemurian, Pliensbachian and Lower Toarcian deposits cropping out in the coastal cliffs of the eastern part of the Asturias region in northern Spain, are represented by a succession of alternating lime mudstone to bioclastic wackestone and marl (Fig.
The hydrocarbon source rocks of the Pliensbachian (early Jurassic) in the Asturian Basin (northern Spain): their relationship with the palaeoclimatic oscillations and gamma-ray response
Arwa (Kimmeridgian to Tithonian) Fm is composed of argillaceous limestone, deep-water lime mudstone, and locally minor packstone, wackestone, grainstone, and black shale.
The Geology of Yemen
Las Sedimentitas de Cruces estan constituidas por sublitoarenitas y litoarenitas con fragmentos de cuarzo, feldespato, micas, opacos, circon, epidota y liticos de rocas sedimentarias y volcanicas; intercaladas con biomicritas con textura wackestone, bioesparitas arenosas con textura grainstone y lodolitas arenosas calcareas.
Estratigrafia, petrografia y analisis multi-metodo de procedencia de la formacion Guineales, norte de la Cordillera Occidental de Colombia
Ditrupa- planktonic foraminifera-quartz wackestone (Fig.
Microfacies and sedimentary environment of the early-middle Miocene deposits (Mishan Formation) in south of Iran
1 Birdbear well in Dunn County reveal carbonate-evaporate cycles consisting of alternating mudstone and dolomudstone beds, and an anhydrite capping carbonate mudstone to wackestone.
Characteristics of hydrocarbon migration, from source to pool, Birdbear formation, Williston Basin
Crinoids, Bivalve, Brachiopodal Sandy Wackestone Facies (MF4): This facies is 8m thick and has two beds.
MICROFACIES AND DIAGENETIC ANALYSIS OF AMB FORMATION WESTERN PART OF CENTRAL SALT RANGE, PAKISTAN
2006) for carbonate rocks extracted from the Chapopote Knoll in the abyssal plain near the Campeche Bank in the southeastern Gulf of Mexico, described as a wackestone micrite with [delta][sup.
Surface sediment survey of the seabed on the northwestern slope of Cuba, southern straits of Florida/Estudio del sedimento superficial del lecho marino frente a la costa noroccidental de Cuba, en el estrecho de la Florida/ Estudo do sedimento superficial do leito marinho em frente da costa noroeste de Cuba, no estreito da Florida
En dicho modelo, la rampa interna estaria constituida principalmente por calizas grainstone ooliticas, peloidales y bioclasticas; la rampa media, por calizas wackestone y packstone con abundantes algas tipo Beresella y esponjas calcareas tipo Chaetetes, y la rampa externa, por calizas wackestone con espiculas de esponjas y calizas micriticas bioconstruidas.
Sedimentologia de las calizas de Piedrasluengas (Carbonifero medio de la region del Pisuerga-Carrion, Zona Cantabrica)
The classification of Dunham, 1962 divides limestone on the basis of texture into grainstone, packstone, mudstone, wackestone and boundstone.
Petrographical study of Ewekoro carbonate rocks, in Ibese, South Western Nigeria
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