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What does wacke mean?

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  1. (geology) A soft, earthy, dark-coloured rock or clay derived from the alteration of basalt.
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The material of the rock here is wacke, in which there are many flints.
The Annascaul Formation is at least 500 m thick, and is dominated by mudrocks with subordinate quartz wacke sandstones, tuffaceous fine conglomerates and melange.
The hole continues through a sedimentary sequence comprised of fine to medium grained wacke and local fine siltstone and argillite sections.
The lower portion of the hole cored wacke.
The three major arenite sandstone families are separately described below, but the varieties of wacke can be conveniently considered together as a single group.
More distal carpets of wacke sand can extend for thousands of square kilometres across oceanic abyssal plains.

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