Abstract
The fine-grained clastic sediments, sometimes collectively referred to as mudrocks, include clays, shales, mudstones, marls and loess. Shales are finely laminated rocks in which the individual parallel laminae represent periodic phases of slow sedimentation in a low energy environment. They are fissile, splitting easily along the planes of lamination. Mudstones are blocky, massive and non-fissile in character, with a general absence of laminae. The constituent particles seem to have been deposited at a faster rate than in shales.
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- Clay Mineral
- Black Shale
- Glacial Lake
- Argillaceous Rock
- Brown Clay
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Greensmith, J.T. (1989). Argillaceous deposits. In: Petrology of the Sedimentary Rocks. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9640-6_6
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