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In the new codes, clastic bandages are considered those that contain fibers of rubber, spandex, or elastane.
Large tuff-filled clastic dykes invade volcaniclastic deposits associated with the Ferrar large igneous province.
No volcanic or clastic sedimentary rocks were obtained from Cavalli Seamount.
Most coarse-grained clastic sediment that is deposited in turbidite basins is either derived from alluvial basins or shallow marine shelves.
The Allouez Conglomerate is composed mainly of red-colored clastic rocks with lesser amounts of sandstone and siltstone.
The sediments are partly clastic and partly volcaniclastic because volcanism is active along such margins.
The upper unit consists of red continental clastic rocks of presumed Pcrmo-Triassic age, overlain by Triassic carbonate rocks.
The Bishri area was part of the Palmyride aulacogen from Late Palaeozoic until Paleogene time, accumulating thousands of metres of clastic and carbonate strata.
These rocks are broadly known as clastic rocks because they consist of distinct particles or clasts.
Lower Cambrian and subordinate Precambrian strata are mainly metamorphic marine clastic deposits and underlie parts of the western section of the county.
If the detrital material in a chemical rock fluctuates between 5 and 50 per cent, the chances are very great that this chemical rock has a clastic texture.
After this, a process of denudation forms a thick sequence of overlying conformable clastic deposits, which contain large amounts of heavy minerals in low concentrations.
The Hammamat Group is a sequence of immature, clastic sedimentary rocks that crop out sporadically throughout the central and northern segments of the Eastern Desert of Egypt.
Most of the mountains are clastic stratovolcanic sediments, and the abundant solfataras and fumaroles, many of which are still active, are the last phases of the volcanism.
These clastic fragments are the only remaining record of a now eroded sedimentary cover over the Slave Craton.
If every clastic deposit is represented by an unconformity somewhere else, then paleontology provides a reliable key to that somewhere else.
This organic debris is considered the original source for some chemical cave minerals but is also associated with the generation of autochthonous clastic sediments.
The unit is composed of rhythmically bedded marls, horizons of laminated organic-rich black shales, rare marly limestones, clastic turbidites, and penecontemporaneous slumps.
We suggest that because the upper portion of underthrust sections lacked any thick, water-saturated clastic deposits this did not favour the formation of melanges.
The Mannville Group was deposited as a clastic wedge east of the mountain ranges.
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The hole intersected Quaternary lavas and clastic sediments from collar to hole end at 284 metres.
The mineralization is spatially related to a Tertiary intrusive complex which has intruded Cretaceous limestones and clastic sediments.
Geology consists of multi-phase intrusives emplaced into clastic limestones and ultramafics.
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