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clastic

[ UK /klˈɑːstɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. capable of being taken apart
    the professor had a clastic model of the human brain
  2. of or belonging to or being a rock composed of fragments of older rocks (e.g., conglomerates or sandstone)

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  • In addition, a huge thickness of foredeep clastic rock in southern foreland basin is a favorable place of exploration of deep-basin gas and carbon dioxide gas pools.
  • The Los Zorros property covers the entire breadth of a regional anticlinorium in an area that is the locus of younger intrusive activity which intruded up through the fold-deformed lower Cretaceous section of volcaniclastic, siliclastic, and limestone formations and intrusive diorite sills. StreetInsider.com News Articles
  • A chronosynclastic infundibulum, from memory, is where everything that could be true, is true simultaneously. Three years and counting - The Panda's Thumb
  • Casting him as the corrupt and vicious Cuban police captain known as the Red Vulture struck me as inspired until I remembered how often Kovacs the absurdist, iconoclastic comedian appeared in movies playing establishmentarian authority figures straight. For todays active man
  • The volcanic successions comprise thick piles of basaltic lavas and subordinate intermediate and silicic lavas and pyroclastics.
  • Privatisation currently looms in the background as an iconoclastic aspiration always viewed with rose-coloured spectacles and about which many people speak but very few objectively map out.
  • Large cobble - sized clasts of sandstone, up to 250 mm diameter, in the conglomerates contain fractures with void infilling by matrix, indicating cataclastic deformation before lithification.
  • In practice pyroclastic and volcaniclastic rocks include all the products of extrusive volcanic activity except lava flows.
  • Black it certainly is; funny it certainly is, but, in reality, it is more of a symposium of anarchic, iconoclastic humour than a comedy in the pure sense of the word.
  • Clastic rock and low - grade metamorphic rock , and the non - disease area is mainly in the coal stratum.
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