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Mudstones are fine-grained sedimentary rocks composed of silt and clay particles
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The clays and mudstones are rich in organic material.
The deposit is of marine origin largely consisting of mudstones.
The mudstones also contain siltstones.
They commonly occur as concretions in mudstones and siltstones.
The mudstones are used as raw material for the brick industry.
Clays range from soft and plastic to hard mudstones.
The formation consists of calcareous mudstones interbedded with lithic sandstones.
Trace fossils made by burrowing organisms are common in its mudstones.
In the mudstones a fauna very rich in both species and organisms was found.
The silt often occurs as laminations within these mudstones.
And the silts eventually formed mudstones like those over there.
The lagoonal succession is erosively overlain by offshore sandy mudstones.
Nodular ironstone concretions occur in the mudstones that contain plant remains.
This quarry contains remnant outcrops of highly trilobitic blue mudstones.
Mineralization is hosted by lithic sandstones and mudstones interbedded with conglomeratic sandstones and conglomerates.
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The lower sections of the mountain are made up of sedimentary rocks such as mudstones.
The siliceous organic mudstones of the formation were deposited in deep water and fluvial environments.
Rocks that possess large amounts of both clay and silt are called mudstones.
Each of the three are dominated by mudstones but contain abundant sandstones and coal seams.
It is made from Credaceus sandstones glauconite and mudstones.
Bones are associated mostly with mudstones and a layer that contains numerous carbonate nodules.
Most of the Yerrapalli Formation consists of red mudstones.
Early Namurian basinal mudstones are the source rocks for these hydrocarbons.
There is also some salt present in the overlying Breckells Mudstones.
Blairmore Group mudstones and shales beneath the moraines were susceptible to toppling.
The entire hill is composed of sandstones and mudstones dating from the Carboniferous Period.
The most likely hydrocarbon source rocks are Early Jurassic marine mudstones.
These features on the Murray formation mudstones are the accumulations of resistant materials.
Mudstones are blocky to rubbly, with little lamination.
The underlying Jurassic sandstones and mudstones have little direct influence upon the landscape.
In the east, even younger and softer sandstones and mudstones occur.
Beneath these are the mudstones and coal seams of the South Wales Coal Measures.
These consist variously of sandstones, mudstones and siltstones.
Metamorphosed silty mudstones of the Burgess Shale and Stephen Shale formations record a poly metamorphic history.
Faulting has exposed an inlier of mudstones from the Skiddaw Group.
It consists primarily of fine-grained sandstones interbedded with siltstones and mudstones.
It is composed of mudstones and sandstone, usually with abundant plant debris.
Kharaulakh ridge is composed mainly of sandstones, mudstones and shale rock.
It consists largely of mudstones and siltstones with subordinate wacke-type sandstones.
All six localities are single, highly concentrated bone horizons within silty mudstones.
The cracks can occur, for example, in mudstones deposited between two beds of sandstone.
These blueschist-facies volcanic rocks are in fault contact with the fossiliferous mudstones.
In addition, the argillaceous matrix of such mudstones frequently contains numerous calcareous particles and stringers.
The two formations are separated by a wide bench of the Kayenta Formation 's soft mudstones.
In the Silurian period, sandstones and mudstones were deposited in some parts of England.
The bedrock of the area consists of Permo-Triassic sandstones and particularly Triassic mudstones.
The seas and laid down the shales, slates and mudstones of the Rove Formation.
Finally, mudstones have been found.
They are the most common in fine-grained, dark colored mudstones.
However, redder mudstones are dominant.
