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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...
- however, is deposition by submarine m**** flows like turbidites and olistostromes in tectonically active areas, and they can be produced in a wide range...
- the trench by gravity sliding and debris flow from the forearc ridge (olistostrome) Piggy-back basins, which are small basins located in surface depression...
- ****ble and southern slopes are formed from the Buttermere Formation, an olistostrome of disrupted, sheared and folded mudstone, siltstone and sandstone. The...
- diamictons are solifluction, landslides, debris flows, and turbiditic olistostromes. The term can generally be applied to types of siliciclastic sediments...
- south. On the northern flanks are outcrops of the Buttermere Formation, olistostrome of disrupted sheared mudstone, siltstone and sandstone. Southward march...
- 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...
- Middle Jur****ic, limestone shoals formed on fault blocks and chaotic olistostrome slump deposits ac****ulated limestone fragments in nearby deep water....
- Central Eastern Desert are classified and mapped into tectonic mélange, olistostrome and olistostromal mélange. Both tectonic and sedimentary processes pla****...