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marlstone

NOUN
  1. metamorphic rock with approximately the same composition as marl

How To Use marlstone In A Sentence

  • From the Early Aptian to the latest Albian, a c.750 m thick succession of cyclically bedded marlstones and limestones was deposited in the centre of the basin.
  • The Marlstone Rock Bed is a distinctive limestone unit that outcrops from Lyme Regis on the Dorset coast of southern England, north-eastwards to just west of Hull near the North Sea coast.
  • The investigated main Niveau Breistroffer interval is 6.28 m thick and consists of weakly lithified, fine-grained marlstones and four laminated black shale units.
  • The sequences are characterized by thin laminated marlstones, calcareous mudstones, claystones, shales and some thin coal beds.
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