clast in a sentence
Examples
- The clasts originate in deeper formations and have been brought up by diatreme or intrusive breccias.
- This basal conglomerate contains quartzite clasts that lack any known equivalents in the Grand Canyon region.
- Coquina, a rock composed of clasts of broken shells, can only form in energetic water.
- Elsewhere clasts of quartzite, limestone, sandstone, mudstone, jasper and basalt can be found.
- Cataclasites or pseudotachylite breccias with mylonite clasts are common, as are ductily deformed cataclasites and pseudotachylites.
- These organisms bore small " tunnels " in the original crystals that the clasts were built from.
- The angularity of these clasts and their similarity to underlying, undisturbed beds indicate very little transport.
- Sedimentary rocks that contain a mixture of rounded and angular gravel clasts are sometimes called breccio-conglomerate.
- The clast orientation is defined as the direction of the eigenvector, on a compass rose of 360?
- :: Please don't place too much weight on my comment mentioned by I'clast.