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- An olistostrome is a sedimentary deposit composed of a chaotic m**** of heterogeneous material, such as blocks and mud, known as olistoliths, that ac****ulates...
- Moor. The Cat Bells ridge is an example of the Buttermere Formation, an olistostrome of disrupted, sheared and folded mudstone, siltstone and sandstone. Nearly...
- for the complex mix of lithologies in the north of the island to be an olistostrome related to a subduction zone. "Dennis Wood - Cyngor Cefn Gwlad Cymru"...
- "La série du PII–III de l'Anti-Atlas occidental (Sud marocain) : Un olistostrome à la base de la couverture post-panafricaine (PIII) du Protérozoı̈que...
- peridotite Bangui Formation - sandstone, conglomerate, mudstone; includes olistostrome Magabobbo Limestone - micritic limestone, calcarenites, minor argillites...
- however, is deposition by submarine m**** flows like turbidites and olistostromes in tectonically active areas, and they can be produced in a wide range...
- mudstone, jasper and basalt can be found. The deposit is interpreted as an olistostrome, a giant underwater landslide possibly triggered by an earthquake some...
- of the Pan-African orogeny. Nappes advancing from the south deposited olistostrome detritus into the Fungurume foreland basin to the north of the arc. Nappe...
- Central Eastern Desert are classified and mapped into tectonic mélange, olistostrome and olistostromal mélange. Both tectonic and sedimentary processes pla****...
- diamictons are solifluction, landslides, debris flows, and turbiditic olistostromes. The term can generally be applied to types of siliciclastic sediments...