Item talk:Q41317
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Mindat Description
A poorly-sorted clastic-sediment containing a wide range of clast sizes
Geoscience Ontology Description
Unsorted or poorly sorted, clastic sediment with a wide range of particle sizes, including a muddy matrix. Biogenic materials that have such texture are excluded. Distinguished from conglomerate, sandstone, mudstone based on polymodality and lack of structures related to transport and deposition of sediment by moving air or water. Assignment to an other size class can be used in conjunction to indicate the dominant grain size. definition amplified to help distinguish diamicton, conglomerate and wackestone in this version
