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Stylolites (Gr****: stylos, pillar; lithos, stone) are
serrated surfaces within a rock m**** at
which mineral material has been
removed by
pressure dissolution...
- of 40% to 80% to less than 10%.
Pressure solution produces distinctive stylolites,
irregular surfaces within the
limestone at
which silica-rich sediments...
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Fissility Oblique foliation Pressure solution Rock
microstructure Slickenside Stylolite Tectonic phase Tectonite Folding Anticline Chevron Detachment fold Dome...
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meters in size. The
nodules are most
typically along bedding planes or
stylolite (dissolution) surfaces,
where fossil organisms tended to ac****ulate and...
- peristyle, prostyle, pycnostyle, stylite, Stylites, stylobate, styloid,
stylolite, stylus,
systyle su-, sut- sew
Latin suere,
sutus couture,
suture suad-...
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Fissility Oblique foliation Pressure solution Rock
microstructure Slickenside Stylolite Tectonic phase Tectonite Folding Anticline Chevron Detachment fold Dome...
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example of a
diagenetic structure common in
carbonate rocks is a
stylolite.
Stylolites are
irregular planes where material was
dissolved into the pore...
- peristyle, prostyle, pycnostyle, stylite, Stylites, stylobate, styloid,
stylolite, stylus,
systyle su-, sut- sew
Latin suere,
sutus couture,
suture suad-...
- monolithic, Neolithic, Paleolithic, photolithography, phytolith, regolith,
stylolite loc-
place Latin locus,
locare accouchement, allocate, bilocation, bilocular...
- stress.
stratigraphy stylolite An
irregular discontinuity or non-structural
fracture in
limestone and
other sedimentary rocks.
Stylolites result from compaction...
