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Under the
Dunham classification (Dunham, 1962)
system of limestones, a
wackestone is
defined as a mud-supported
carbonate rock that
contains greater than...
- Member, and
uppermost Venice Member. The
Bellepoint Member consists of
wackestones and packstones,
which ac****ulated as
muddy shoals and
contain a large...
- of 'grains' in the
sample - in consequence,
misidentifying mudstone as
wackestone and vice versa. The
original Dunham classification (1962)
defined the...
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temperature water Turbidite –
Geologic deposit of a
turbidity current Wackestone – Mud-supported
carbonate rock that
contains greater than 10%
grains Anthracite –...
- defined:
Mudstone a mud-supported
carbonate rock
containing <10% grains.
Wackestone a mud-supported
carbonate lithology containing >10% grains. Packstone...
- environments: the
shoals of the
shelf margin,
lagoonal evaporites, and the
wackestones and
packstones in the
tidal flats.
These environments result from the...
- a
dismicritic to
microsparitic matrix. Bio-pelmicrites/mudstones to
wackestones:
biogenic components include echinoderms, gastropods, foraminifera, ostracods...
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therefore less compact. B-5 was a 4 m (13 ft)-thick
layer of
packstone to
wackestone limestone, and
formed the
upper unsupported part of the arch. The facies...
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sequence is
identified in the
Castletown area:
Knockcrushen Formation (
wackestones,
packstones and mudstones; of
Holkerian age)
Derbyhaven Formation (packstones...
- and stromatoporoid-coral-crinoid
wackestone-packstone-rudstones,
interbedded with
light grey,
bioclastic wackestone-packstone.
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