| Slices incorporate oceanic pelagic and hemipelagic lithologies such as chert, siliceous, calcareous and tuffaceous mudstone, limestone, and siliceous and calcareous shale. |
| Subtidal lithologies contain peloids, ostracodes, bivalves, gastropods and oncoids. |
| In places, they contain blocks and fragments of surrounding lithologies as well as isolated boudins of granite pegmatite. |
| Sufficient original contacts between lithologies can be locally observed such that the original stratigraphie succession is determinable with reasonable confidence. |
| In response to burial in sedimentary basins, clay minerals in mudrock lithologies, including mudstone, shale and slate, undergo diagenetic and low-grade metamorphic reactions. |
| In most successions of metamorphic rocks, those with reactive lithologies, such as mature pelites, make up only a small proportion of the rock mass. |
