clast in a sentence

Examples

1. The formation of mud cracks and clasts signals that periodic drought conditions occurred in the quarry, Gates says.
2. The gastroliths were mostly composed of chert, with some sandstone, siltstone, and quartzite clasts also included.
3. The sample contains a large clast of anorthosite, and Dave Scott said " Guess what we just found!
4. The clasts tended to be close to spherical in shape, although the largest specimens were also the most irregular.
5. As a result, the FTCE began in 2002 to replace the College Level Academic Skills Test ( CLAST ).
6. The meteorite is an ordinary chondrite, an H chondrite breccia, containing clasts of petrologic types 4 to 5.
7. Three months after the eruption, the mass had dispersed into very dilute rafts and ribbons of floating pumice clasts.
8. Pyroclastic rocks may be a range of clast sizes, from the largest agglomerates, to very fine ashes and tuffs.
9. Agglomerates are typically poorly sorted, may contain a fine ash or tuff matrix and vary from matrix to clast support.
10. Methods involve description of clast size, sorting, composition, rounding or angularity, sphericity and description of the matrix.