Definition of Clastics. Meaning of Clastics. Synonyms of Clastics

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Definition of Clastics

Clastic
Clastic Clas"tic, a. [Gr. ? br?, fr. ? to break.] 1. Pertaining to what may be taken apart; as, clastic anatomy (of models). 2. (Min.) Fragmental; made up of brok? fragments; as, sandstone is a clastic rock.

Meaning of Clastics from wikipedia

- Clastic rocks are composed of fragments, or clasts, of pre-existing minerals and rock. A clast is a fragment of geological detritus, chunks, and smaller...
- A clastic **** is a seam of sedimentary material that fills an open fracture in and cuts across sedimentary rock strata or layering in other rock types...
- into four groups based on the processes responsible for their formation: clastic sedimentary rocks, biochemical (biogenic) sedimentary rocks, chemical sedimentary...
- In geology, a clastic wedge is a thick ac****ulation of sediments or sedimentary rocks eroded and deposited landward of a mountain chain or geological...
- either cutting across layers of rock or through a contiguous m**** of rock. Clastic ****s are formed when sediment fills a pre-existing crack. A magmatic ****...
- diameter of individual grains of sediment, or the lithified particles in clastic rocks. The term may also be applied to other granular materials. This is...
- of prerift Paleozoic to Oligocene clastic rocks and carbonates, and synrift and postrift Miocene to Holocene clastics and evaporites.: 236  Three large...
- ba****t, particularly in the southern part of the area. These continental clastic rocks are thought to be of Tri****ic-to-Jur****ic age, although they may...
- includes a succession of clastics between the co**** facies of the Santos Formation in the west and the fine-grained clastics of the Itajai-Açu Formation...
- 4202/app.01117.2023. Po****hal, J. J. (1996). "Calcareous nannofossils and clastic sediments at the Cretaceous–Tertiary boundary, northeastern Mexico". Geology...