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Kurkar is the regional name for an aeolian quartz sandstone with carbonate cement, [3] in other words an eolianite or a calcarenite (calcareous sandstone or grainstone), found on the Levantine coast of the Mediterranean Sea in Turkey, [3] Syria, Lebanon, Israel, [4] the Gaza Strip [5] and northern Sinai Peninsula. [6]
As sandstones, these are known as lithic sandstones. Arc sands plot along the F and L line, with sometimes significant Q components. Clustering near the F pole indicates a dissected arc, and clustering near the L pole indicates an undissected, or new arc. As sandstones, these are known as arkoses and/or lithic sandstones.
[1] Wackes are sandstones that contain more than 15% clay matrix between framework grains. Quartz wackes are uncommon because quartz arenites are texturally mature to supermature. [1] Felspathic wackes are feldspathic sandstone that contain a matrix that is greater than 15%. [1] Lithic wacke is a sandstone in which the matrix greater than 15%. [1]
Steenpan (also Flatpan or Klippan), Free State province, near Wolvehoek; Table Mountain Sandstone Western Cape province, various quarry sites; numerous types, some without trade names, from the Karoo Supergroup in many quarries near Graaff-Reinet, Cradock, Queenstown, Aliwal North, Burgersdorp and Sterkstroom; Těšínský sandstone quarry ...
They were first described and named (in their modern definitions) by Bill Dickinson in 1970. [1] Lithic fragments can be derived from sedimentary, igneous or metamorphic rocks. A lithic fragment is defined using the Gazzi-Dickinson point-counting method and being in the sand-size fraction.
They are closely related to sandstones in origin, and exhibit many of the same types of sedimentary structures, such as tabular and trough cross-bedding and graded bedding. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Fanglomerates are poorly sorted, matrix-rich conglomerates that originated as debris flows on alluvial fans and likely contain the largest accumulations of ...
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Arenite (from the Latin arena, "sand") [1] is a sedimentary clastic rock with sand grain size between 0.0625 mm (0.00245 in) and 2 mm (0.08 in) and containing less than 15% matrix. [2] The related adjective is arenaceous. The equivalent Greek-derived term is psammite, though this is more commonly used for metamorphosed sediments.