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siliciclastic

siliciclastic adjective: describing clastic rocks that bear quartz or similar silicate minerals.

Adjective

siliciclastic (not comparable)

  1. Describing clastic rocks that bear quartz or similar silicate minerals
    • As with siliciclastic turbidites, the maximum thickness of an individual bed is commonly not attained in the neighborhood of the source area, but at some distance downcurrent (Fig. 5.16b); then it decreases distally.2000, Gerhard Einsele, Sedimentary Basins: Evolution, Facies, and Sediment Budget, page 221

Noun

siliciclastic (plural siliciclastics)

  1. Such a rock

Forms of siliciclastic

pluralsiliciclastics

Questions about siliciclastic

What does siliciclastic mean?
Siliciclastic means describing clastic rocks that bear quartz or similar silicate minerals.
What part of speech is siliciclastic?
Siliciclastic can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near siliciclastic in the dictionary

  1. silician
  2. silicic
  3. silicic acid
  4. silicic acids
  5. silicicalcareous
  6. siliciclastic
  7. siliciclastics
  8. silicicole
  9. silicicoles
  10. silicicolous
  11. silicid

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