mudstone
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- noun
- /ˈmʌdˌstoʊn/
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- Shale, from an Old Norse word for "scale," is a fissile, laminated argillaceous mudstone (first defined technically in 1757).
Examples
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The organic buildups are composed of massive to faintly laminated mudstone, wackestone, packstone, and boundstone.
Blog text (19) -
The egg site in the Patagonian badlands, above, is marked by bands of sandstone and mudstone.
Academic text (2002) -
We have sandstone, mudstone, basalt and slate.
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The asphalt is cut through one after another of lime and mudstone rises rather than making a washboard of these last ten miles.
Fiction book (1993) -
The Brown Dense play is an old play made up of carbonate mudstone found at roughly 8,000-12,000 feet depths.
Blog text (18) -
La Puente is an expanse of naked mudstone, stripped of jungle and a layer of coal.
Blog text (28) -
Kadanuumuu's forearm was first extracted from a hunk of mudstone
Academic text (2011) -
The Nagar Village is a cluster of mudstone huts with the snow-capped Golden Peak mountain towering over it.
Academic text (1997) -
The edges of the depressions consist of tilted layers of sandstone, called cross beds, and their bowls are filled with mudstone.
Academic text (2002) -
The ancient cliffs are made up of various layers of mudstone, revealing the area's geological history.
Synonyms
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A rock made from clay that splits into thin flat layers
A hard rock made of tiny bits of clay pressed together
A rock made mainly of clay that forms in layers
A hard rock made from clay that does not split into thin sheets
How Clayey
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word mudstone is made from the simple words mud and stone, so it literally means 'mud turned into rock'. It names a fine rock formed when layers of mud are pressed and hardened into stone, which is why fossils are often kept inside it.