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Definition of Mudstones
1. mudstone [n] - See also: mudstone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mudstones
Literary usage of Mudstones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Silurian Rocks of Britain by Benjamin Nieve Peach, John Horne, Jethro Justinian Harms Teall (1899)
"and mudstones has not liere been detected in a similar position, ... The cherts
and red mudstones are followed by the barren green mudstones, Hags, ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria by Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Vic.), Royal Society of Victoria (1903)
"They are followed by a heavy conglomerate of pebbles of similar character to
those in the mudstones, but reaching larger sizes, nearly a foot in diameter, ..."
3. Manual of Geology: Theoretical and Practical by John Phillips (1885)
"The beds consist of a series of black and grey shales and " mudstones," containing
the ... The species in these mudstones, although in many cases peculiar, ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"The highest member of this series is the Kirkby Moor Flags, which consist of a
considera ble thickness of mudstones and sandstones, much disturbed and ..."
5. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania by Royal Society of Tasmania (1898)
"Upper marine mudstones overlying Mersey coal; Porter Hill shales and sandstones,
... The Lower Marine series of limestones and mudstones comprises, ..."
6. Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Staistical by Francis Hindes Groome (1885)
"Ribbed mudstones and flags. The bkck shale series, in the Moffat area, occurs
along anticlinal folds in the overlying Queensberry grits, the tops of the ..."
7. The Silurian Rocks of Britain by Benjamin Nieve Peach, John Horne, Jethro Justinian Harms Teall (1899)
"and mudstones has not liere been detected in a similar position, ... The cherts
and red mudstones are followed by the barren green mudstones, Hags, ..."
8. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria by Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Vic.), Royal Society of Victoria (1903)
"They are followed by a heavy conglomerate of pebbles of similar character to
those in the mudstones, but reaching larger sizes, nearly a foot in diameter, ..."
9. Manual of Geology: Theoretical and Practical by John Phillips (1885)
"The beds consist of a series of black and grey shales and " mudstones," containing
the ... The species in these mudstones, although in many cases peculiar, ..."
10. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"The highest member of this series is the Kirkby Moor Flags, which consist of a
considera ble thickness of mudstones and sandstones, much disturbed and ..."
11. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania by Royal Society of Tasmania (1898)
"Upper marine mudstones overlying Mersey coal; Porter Hill shales and sandstones,
... The Lower Marine series of limestones and mudstones comprises, ..."
12. Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Staistical by Francis Hindes Groome (1885)
"Ribbed mudstones and flags. The bkck shale series, in the Moffat area, occurs
along anticlinal folds in the overlying Queensberry grits, the tops of the ..."
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