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- grade grain-size fraction - resulting in misidentification as wackestone. Packstones with very small volumes of carbonate mud may be misclassified as grainstone...
- Knockcrushen Formation (wackestones, packstones and mudstones; of Holkerian age) Derbyhaven Formation (packstones and mudstones with some mudstones and...
- uppermost Venice Member. The Bellepoint Member consists of wackestones and packstones, which ac****ulated as muddy shoals and contain a large number of rugose...
- v t e Dunham classification rocks Mudstone Wackestone Packstone Grainstone Floatstone Rudstone Bafflestone Bindstone Framestone...
- Wackestone a mud-supported carbonate lithology containing >10% grains. Packstone a grain-supported fabric containing 1% or more mud-grade fraction. Grainstone...
- calcareous, microbialitic mudstones with extensive mudcracks or s****y packstones, generally mid-Silurian to early-Devonian in age. Eospirifer radiatus...
- shoals of the shelf margin, lagoonal evaporites, and the wackestones and packstones in the tidal flats. These environments result from the cyclic deposits...
- nodules. The lower section is composed of echinoderm grainstone to silty Packstone. There are numerous fossils found within the Boyle Group. Sumrall, Colin...
- Thin section photomicrograph of Orbitolinid foraminifera floatstone with a fragmented bioclast packstone matrix, plane polarised light...
- v t e Dunham classification rocks Mudstone Wackestone Packstone Grainstone Floatstone Rudstone Bafflestone Bindstone Framestone...