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Examples of claystone
claystone
The red claystone and white layers of gypsum make it hard to keep your attention on the obstacles ahead.
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Claystone and shales are thus predominantly argillaceous.
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The thick claystone seals encountered provide good encouragement about the underlying oil prospectivity.
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Claystone and mudstone beds of this member erode into gray slopes that can exhibit brown, red, yellow, and green colors.
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This eventually became the light purplish-gray claystone, sandstone, and carbonate rock of the Chinle's Monitor Butte Member.
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The lower members of this formation consist of coal beds and claystone with conglomerate made of quarzite from the Targhee uplift above.
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Geological configurations that could play a role for the permanent disposal of nuclear waste include not only salt and granite formations, but also claystone.
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- Fine-grained rock consisting of compacted clay particles
- Claystone is a geological term used to describe a clastic sedimentary rock that is composed primarily of clay-sized particles (less than 1/256 millimetre in diameter).
- Claystone is hardened clay (by pressure, cementation, or heat) having the texture and composition of shale but lacking its fine lamination or fissility. Source: Bates and Jackson (1984)
- Are rocks in which much clay is present or which are largely composed of clay.
- Claystones contain predominantly clay-sized grains and are non-fissile.
