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What (who) is mudstone - definition

FINE GRAINED SEDIMENTARY ROCK WHOSE ORIGINAL CONSTITUENTS WERE CLAYS OR MUDS
Mudstones; Carbonate mudstone
  • Thin section photomicrograph of carbonate mudstone
  • A Mudstone: few small components in a micritic matrix, width of picture is 32 mm
  • Mudstone on east beach of [[Lyme Regis]], England
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mudstone         
¦ noun a dark sedimentary rock formed from consolidated mud and lacking the laminations of shale.
Mudstone         
Mudstone, a type of mudrock, is a fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were clays or muds. Mudstone is distinguished from shale by its lack of fissility (parallel layering).
Marros Group         
GEOLOGICAL TERM FOR ROCK IN SOUTH WALES
Twrch Sandstone; Bishopston Mudstone; Telpyn Point Sandstone
The Marros Group is the name given to a suite of rocks of Namurian age laid down during the Carboniferous Period in South Wales. These rocks were formerly known as the Millstone Grit Series but are now distinguished from the similar but geographically separate rock sequences of the Pennines and Peak District of northern England and northeast Wales by this new name.

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Mudstone

Mudstone, a type of mudrock, is a fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were clays or muds. Mudstone is distinguished from shale by its lack of fissility (parallel layering).

The term mudstone is also used to describe carbonate rocks (limestone or dolomite) that are composed predominantly of carbonate mud. However, in most contexts, the term refers to siliciclastic mudstone, composed mostly of silicate minerals.

The NASA Curiosity rover has found deposits of mudstone on Mars that contain organic substances such as propane, benzene and toluene.

Examples of use of mudstone
1. But, he added, when it comes to anatomical features, the Indohyus "is quite strikingly like one." Thewissen, who earlier published papers on fossils of what he called the first amphibious whale and the skeleton of the oldest known whale, studied hundreds of Indohyus bones unearthed from mudstone in the Kashmir region of India.