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The bioclastic facies of the Upper Domerian and Upper Toarcian Limestone Mbrs suggest periods of shallower sedimentation above storm wave base.
She has the cachectic facies of a painting of a Victorian consumptive, Munch's Sick Child, perhaps.
Urgonian facies are also characterized, negatively, by the absence of ammonites and belemnites.
The auriferous veins there are usually interbedded sandstone mudstone varieties metamorphosed into greenschist facies.
To achieve this goal we map the spatial distribution of volcanic seismic facies units.
To accomplish these, however, a more thorough paleontological investigation of each taphonomic facies is necessary.
The bed thickness is variable from thinly bedded to massive beds up to 9 m thick, and the contacts with other facies are generally gradational.
Individual deposit thicknesses vary from 20 m in proximal facies, to less than 2 m in distal facies.
Changes in Mesozoic and Cenozoic thicknesses and facies across the northsouth faults indicate their pre-collisional origins.
Two facies of regionally metamorphosed rocks that may be of either original sedimentary or igneous derivation are characterized by epidote.
Where cored the Auk Formation is easily identified because of the preservation of aeolian dune facies.
The facies consists mainly of brownish grey laminated bioclastic packstone and thinly bedded cherts.
Only very fine-grained facies referred to as porcellaneous have provided biostratigraphically indicative fauna, i.e. calpionellids.
The Moine rocks widely record polyphase deformation and metamorphism up to amphibolite facies.
This trend continues until in the Odiel River the mafic sills intrude the red mudrock-felsic volcaniclastic facies association.
The sequence shows retrogression from blueschist to greenschist facies metamorphism during deformation.
This facies consists of distinctly laminated mudstone, with a minor component of siltstone and very fine-grained sandstone.
Clasts in this facies are commonly arranged into stripes of a single lithology and show peaks in the angular and very angular classes.
These often overlie distal bayhead delta mouthbar facies, and commonly have a sharp erosive base.
Bezys and Risk suggested that the black shales and mudstone facies were the results of a stratified water column with a pycnocline.
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The Carboniferous system in Brazil presents itself under two facies, the one marine and the other terrestrial.
The terms diabase and dolerite are employed really to designate distinct facies of the same set of rocks.
Marls and limestones with fossils of an Eocene facies overlie the Cretaceous rocks on the Gabun.
The horizontal part of the facies, next the front, that lies behind the eyes and between the temples.
I can see now his facies, as my chemist would say, listening to the pieces as they are read.
This work presents the first detailed facies analysis of the upper Nyalau Formation exposed around Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia.
Tide-dominated delta facies successions coarsen upward from an Offshore into the Tidal Bar Facies Association.
It has often been associated with certain water depth and facies conditions.
On the basis of core and field profile observation and systematic geochemical testing, sedimentary facies is mainly lacustrine in this area.
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