siltstone in English

noun
1
fine-grained sedimentary rock consisting of consolidated silt.
Reddish-brown siltstone and fine-grained sandstone of the Organ Rock Tongue form the lower slopes of the hill and part of the nearly vertical wall above the lower slopes.

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1. "Weak to very weak sandstone and siltstone" was found, just metres below the surface.

2. The arthropod walked on a red siltstone deposited in an alluvial flats environment.

3. 2 The fish is preserved in a siltstone nodule, which has partially formed around the body of the fish.

4. Graywacke, argillite, and slate; includes minor marble, siltstone, arkose, conglomerate, ribbon Cherts, and volcanic rocks

5. The Dunira Formation, composed of thin-bedded limestone and siltstone, is Early and Middle Pennsylvanian in age.

6. It is situated in a sequence of soft sandstone, siltstone and marl with the layers inclined at an angle of about 20°.

7. Subaerial Basaltic flows and breccia and submarine Basaltic breccia, pillow lavas, lapilli and augite-rich tuff with interbeds of Basaltic sandstone, siltstone, and conglomerate

8. The Basher series consists of very deep, moderately well drained soils formed in recent alluvial deposits derived from acid, reddish siltstone, sandstone, and shale

9. The Castorid skeleton was found in a brown tuffaceous siltstone that occurs near the top of the early Hemphillian section exposed in the trenches at the Big Cut

10. The base of the Abbottabad Formation at Aluli is Arenaceous comprising (bottom to top) ~80 m thick quartzite followed by ~ 40 m thick siltstone and finally 20 m thick conglomerate.

11. Along with Asteroidean repichnia/cubichnia are traces that are considered to be repichnial movements of the same species of sea star preserved in siltstone layers above the trackway of the sea star

12. ‘Conglomerate clasts are principally volcanic rocks and greenish gray chert, with subordinate Arkose, graywacke, siltstone, red chert, quartzite, white quartz, and limestone.’ ‘When the sandstone contains appreciable quantities of feldspar the rock is called Arkose.’

13. ‘Conglomerate clasts are principally volcanic rocks and greenish gray chert, with subordinate Arkose, graywacke, siltstone, red chert, quartzite, white quartz, and limestone.’ ‘When the sandstone contains appreciable quantities of feldspar the rock is called Arkose.’

14. The lower part consists of deep-water turbiditic sandstone, siltstone and Argillite, and voluminous mafic sills; the upper part comprises shallow-water siliciclastic rocks and stromatolitic carbonates deposited in intertidal and floodplain settings

15. And tephrite (lavas, lava breccias, and tu s); (3) the lower terrigenous–volcanogenic (Augitite) sequence (up to 750 m thick) is composed of Augitite and limbourgite lavas, tu s, and tu tes with conglomerate and siltstone interbed

16. Craton-cover sequences are characterised by a common stratigraphy, which generally includes from base to top, quartz arenite ± conglomerate ± stromatolite-bearing carbonate ± sandstone ± siltstone ± iron-formation, although the stratigraphy may be reversed in …

17. A А Shales Drangonstone Fault Drangonstone Fault B Limestones Pillow Basalts B Cherts & Shales Cherts & Shales Thinnly bedded shale Layered siltstone and mudstone Crosss-bedded & layered sandstone Figure 3 Cliff Exposures at Dragonstone Photographs of cliff--exposures at Dragonstone.