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Peloids are
allochems that are
composed of micrite,
irrespective of size, shape, or origin. The two
primary types of
peloids are
pellets and intraclasts...
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organic matter, clay minerals, silt-sized
detrital grains, and pyrite.
Peloidal or
pelletal phosphorites occur normally;
whereas oolitic phosphorites are...
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Ophitic texture Orbicular texture Ortho****ulate
Panidiomorphic Pegmatitic Peloidal Perthitic Phaneritic Phyllitic Pisolitic Poikilitic Poikiloblastic Porphyroclastic...
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agglutinated to form a stromatolite. Thrombolitic:
microbialite with a
clotted peloidal fabric if
observed with a
petrographic microscope. The
density of peloids...
- limestone. Some of
these textures are micritic, pelleted, intraclastic,
peloidal, oolitic, pisolitic, and stromatolitic. In low-grade iron formations, there...
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Peloidal phosphorite from the
Phosphoria Formation,
Simplot Mine, Idaho. 4.6 cm wide....
- inter-granular
pores of sediments. It is a pore-filling
micrite which has
peloidal or
clotted textures, and when it is
found in
limestones it may
prove that...
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lower portion of the
formation is
dominated by bioclastic,
oolitic and
peloidal limestone,
while channelized sandstone and
conglomerate is
found in the...
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Other rocks are rudistid-coral floatstones,
oolithic grainstones and
peloidal wackestones containing algal pisolites and
other algal remnants. Other...
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still resembling biogenic peloids,
cautioning against ****uming that all
peloidal calcite structures in the rock
record are biogenic. Bosak's postdoctoral...
