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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...
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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...
- 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...
- into four
groups based on the
processes responsible for
their formation:
clastic sedimentary rocks,
biochemical (biogenic)
sedimentary rocks,
chemical sedimentary...
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marine p****ive
margin Tobosa Basin containing deposits of
carbonates and
clastics. In the
early Pennsylvanian–early
Permian the
collision of
North American...
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Shale is a fine-grained,
clastic sedimentary rock
formed from mud that is a mix of
flakes of clay
minerals (hydrous
aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g., kaolin...
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There are four
primary types of
sedimentary rocks:
clastics, carbonates, evaporites, and chemical.
Clastic rocks are
composed of
particles derived from the...
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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...
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south by the
Guayana Shield. This
Guayana shield supplied fine-grained
clastic sediments,
which with the subsidence,
formed a
regional negative gravity...
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location of gas and oil wells.
About 9,000
meters of Eocene-Miocene
marine clastics and
continental sediments were deposited.
Several ba****t
faults were...
