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What does bioclastic mean?

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Adjective
  1. (geology) Describing a sedimentary rock that is composed of the remains of small organisms
  2. (geology) Describing a form of erosion or formation caused by the action of living organisms
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Merriam also noted that bioclastic beds occurred in the Susan Duster Limestone Member, and that the shell fragments were so numerous as to constitute a coquina.
The host lithology consists of bioclastic silt and siliciclastic sand, characteristic of deposition in a biostrome flank setting.
The bioclastic facies of the Upper Domerian and Upper Toarcian Limestone Mbrs suggest periods of shallower sedimentation above storm wave base.
The Middle Member is 57.3 m thick and is mainly composed of gravel-bearing calcarenite, bioclastic limestone, bioclastic micrite, and reef limestone.
On the margin of the channelled scour, the fill deposits pinch out leaving only a bioclastic lag of oysters and pectinids.
They are mainly bioclastic limestones, containing abundant fossils and fossil fragments.

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