clayey mud

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• mud|stone — «MUHD STOHN», noun. a soft, sedimentary, clayey rock nearly uniform in texture, with little or no lamination …   Useful english dictionary

• mud —    Water saturated fine clayey earth material [16] …   Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology

• mudstone — /mud stohn /, n. Geol. a clayey rock with the texture and composition of shale but little or no lamination. [1730 40; MUD + STONE] * * * ▪ rock       sedimentary rock composed primarily of clay or silt sized particles (less than 0.063 mm [0.0025… …   Universalium

• mudstone — mud•stone [[t]ˈmʌdˌstoʊn[/t]] n. gel a clayey rock with the texture and composition of shale but little or no lamination • Etymology: 1730–40 …   From formal English to slang

• Geology of the Capitol Reef area — [ Waterpocket Fold is the major geographic feature in the area of the park. This view is from above Capitol Reef Scenic Drive looking back at the west face of the broken and eroded fold.] The exposed geology of the Capitol Reef area presents a… …   Wikipedia

• Sedimentary rock — Middle Triassic marginal marine sequence of siltstones (below) and limestones (above), Virgin Formation, southwestern Utah, USA Sedimentary rock are types of rock that are formed by the deposition of material at the Earth s surface and within… …   Wikipedia

• Orchard mason bee — Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum …   Wikipedia

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• tunnels and underground excavations — ▪ engineering Introduction        Great tunnels of the world Great tunnels of the worldhorizontal underground passageway produced by excavation or occasionally by nature s action in dissolving a soluble rock, such as limestone. A vertical opening …   Universalium

• Clastic rock — A thin section of a clast (sand grain), derived from a basalt score. Vesicles (air bubbles) can be seen throughout the clast. Plane light above, cross polarized light below. Scale box is 0.25 mm Clastic rocks are composed of fragments, or clasts …   Wikipedia

• river — river1 riverless, adj. riverlike, adj. /riv euhr/, n. 1. a natural stream of water of fairly large size flowing in a definite course or channel or series of diverging and converging channels. 2. a similar stream of something other than water: a… …   Universalium