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What does mudrock mean?

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Noun
  1. (geology) Any of various fine-grained siliciclastic sedimentary rocks.
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Carbonaceous shale, including oil shale, occurs in beds of clayey to silty mudrock from 0.3 to 3 m thick.
This distribution defines an antithetic relationship between breccia facies in the red mudrock sequences and stratiform mineralization.
The TGRA has an unsteady tectonic structure, where geological hazards such as earthquakes, landslides, and mudrock flows frequently occur.
Overlying grey-green, locally manganiferous mudrock is assigned to the Beaverbank Formation.
In response to burial in sedimentary basins, clay minerals in mudrock lithologies, including mudstone, shale and slate, undergo diagenetic and low-grade metamorphic reactions.
As far as the local officials are concerned, we all know that their responsibility will differ depending on whether it was mountain torrent, mudrock slide or river overflow.

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