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What is a mudstone?

What is a mudstone? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (petrology) A fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were clays or muds.
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The unit comprises a thinly laminated heterolith of mudstone and fine-grained sandstone.
This facies consists of distinctly laminated mudstone, with a minor component of siltstone and very fine-grained sandstone.
The sedimentary lenses are composed of limestone, sandstone, siltstone, mudstone, shale, chert and well-bedded calci-turbidite.
The Elgee Siltstone consists of massive red siltstone, sandstone and green mudstone.
As coccolith content increases the calcareous mudstone passes transitionally to a coccolith limestone.
North of the Burd Gol zone there is a small area of interbedded marine mudstone and limestone which reportedly contain Carboniferous fossils.

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