Simple Lithology
mud size sediment
http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/lithology/mud_size_sediment
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definition | Sediment consisting of less than 30 percent gravel-size (2 mm) particles and with a mud-size to sand-size particle ratio greater than 1. Clasts may be of any composition or origin. |  |
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source | based on SLTTs 2004; Neuendorf et al. 2005; particle sizes defined from Krumbein phi scale (W C Krumbein and L L Sloss, Stratigraphy and Sedimentation, 2nd edition, Freeman, San Francisco, 1963; Krumbein and Pettijohn, 1938, Manual of Sedimentary Petrography: New York, Appleton Century Co., Inc.) | |
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in scheme | simplelithology | |||||||||||||||||||||
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is primary topic of | mud size sediment& properties=prefLabel | |||||||||||||||||||||