micritic in a sentence
- Above the transgressive sequence are Late Cretaceous shales with tight, micritic carbonate, marking the top of the Mesozoic.
- The littoral deposits consist of micritic mudstones and dolomitic mudstones that are thought to have been deposited in intertidal to supratidal environments.
- Originally known as " Ice Cave " in the late 1800s and early 1900s, the rocks of Fox Cave are primarily micritic limestone.
- This displays grading, contains blocks up to 50cm across, as well as small micritic limestone clasts, which contain Frasnian and Famennian conodonts.
- *Pellets are those homogeneous aggregates with no internal structure, consisting of micritic calcite, spherical to ellipsoidal in shape and with sizes between 0.03 and 0.15 mm.
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- On the high ( er ) energy side of the individual reefs, the more clastic dominated members formed, whereas in the calm inner lagoon, the cryptocrystalline and micritic members were deposited.
- The Owl Rock is made of purple and orange mudstones, fine-grained sandstones and siltstones with interbedded 1 to 10 foot ( 30 to 300 cm ) thick green to mottled pink micritic and knobby limestone.
- In exceptional situations, microscopic features such as microtrichia on sclerites and wing membranes are even visible, but preservation of this scale also requires a matrix of exceptionally fine grain, such as in micritic muds and volcanic tuffs.