Sedimentary rock

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461Metamorphic rocks / Igneous rocks / Building materials / Clastic rock / Granite / Basalt / Porosity / Sandstone / Sedimentary rock / Petrology / Geology / Stone

THE STRENGTH OF ROCKS 1 Purpose The purpose of Activity I is to measure the relative strengths of rocks by dropping a marble onto them whereas the purpose of Activity II is to investigate which of the following factors d

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Language: English - Date: 2013-08-18 13:17:06
462Sedimentary rock / Kaolinite / Proxy / Maritime archaeology / Silicon / Natural resources / Matter / Phyllosilicates / Archaeological sub-disciplines / Petrology

Paper for submission for 2nd Asia Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage (Hawaii MayTitle: Tracking Environmental and Historical Footprints on Clarence: comparative XRD analysis of clay-rich

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Language: English - Date: 2014-08-19 23:00:12
463Physical geography / Geology of Australia / Petroleum / Reflection seismology / Passive margin / Continental shelf / Sedimentary rock / Paleozoic / Geology of the Falkland Islands / Geology / Plate tectonics / Historical geology

across the shelf (see Dunbar, Dehn, and Leventer, Antarctic this issue). This distribution was first noted by Truesdale and Kellogg (1969), who attributed it to less extensive summer sea ice cover in the western Ross Sea

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 04:12:07
464Cratons / Petrology / Sedimentary rock / Back-arc basin / Sedimentary basin / Bransfield Strait / Basement / Structural basin / Geology of Australia / Geology / Plate tectonics / Sedimentology

clay-mineral cement (20 percent), with accessory plagioclase, potassium-feldspar, zircon, and muscovite. The 2 to 4 millimeter soze fraction contains casts of the foraminifer cyclamina composed of a mixture of angular gr

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 18:02:04
465Metamorphic rocks / Igneous petrology / Fossils / Sedimentology / Granulite / Diatom / Lamprophyre / Clastic rock / Sedimentary rock / Petrology / Geology / Metamorphic petrology

The well-defined peaks between 22.5 and 31 degrees twotheta in the figure can be attributed to sanidine and amphibole whereas the less intense, poorly defined peaks have been matched with anorthite. The presence of sanid

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 07:06:17
466Sedimentary rocks / Clastic rock / Sedimentology / Sandstone / Granite / Volcanic rock / Petrology / Geology / Igneous petrology

have a cluster level of +0.91. The association of the minor elements scandium, vanadium, and cobalt with the major element iron in rock-forming minerals is well known. There were regular latitudinal differences in elemen

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 18:01:59
467Silicon dioxide / Biology / Diatom / Sedimentary rock / Ice shelf / Edward Bransfield / Chemistry / Water / Biogenic silica / Marine biology

Biogenic silica and organic carbon accumulation in modern Bransfield Strait sediments DAVID J . DEMASTER, THOMAS M. NELSON, CHARLES A. NITTROUER* and STEPHEN L. HARDEN Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Science

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 07:39:56
468Geologic formations / Petrology / Sedimentary rock / Turbidite / Beardmore Glacier / Transantarctic Mountains / Beacon sandstone / Geology / Geography of Antarctica / Dufek Coast

canic detritus, derived from a caic-alkaline arc along the paleoPacific margin, became the principal component in sandstone. This change from cratonic to orogenic provenance was the result of a shift in the basin axis to

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 07:07:21
469Sedimentary rocks / Crystallography / Sandstone / Stone / Metamorphic rock / Quartz / Metamorphism / Lithic fragment / Geology / Petrology / Metamorphic petrology

mented by atomic absorption spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy in the case of ambiguous or questionable X-ray data were used to identify the minerals present. Since supergene minerals rarely develop in the fri

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 06:05:06
470Sandstone / Stone / Permian–Triassic extinction event / Early Triassic / Clastic rock / Petrography / Triassic / Permian / Igneous rock / Geology / Petrology / Sedimentary rocks

western Pacific as well, a potently anomalous zone in its own right. Without going into the details of the data analysis, we summarize the conclusions that can be drawn from our study of the dispersion of Rayleigh waves

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 03:56:33
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