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- noun geology A
sedimentary ,calcareous conglomerate containing a mixture of particles;mixtite
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Composite alkalic plutonic suites and tuffaceous diamictite, although discontinuously exposed across central Idaho in roof pendants and inliers within the Idaho batholith and Challis volcanic-plutonic complex, define the more than 200-km-long northwest-aligned Big Creek-Beaverhead belt.
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I remember when I first heard of diamictite: It was during a controversy in the 1980s about peculiar rocks in South America (Carboniferous or Devonian, I forget) that everyone had been calling tillite.
About.com Geology 2010
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But if it were sitting deep in a rock exposure or drill core, we would be arguing over its origin while carefully calling it a diamictite the whole time.
About.com Geology 2010
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But if it were sitting deep in a rock exposure or drill core, we would be arguing over its origin while carefully calling it a diamictite the whole time.
About.com Geology 2010
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I remember when I first heard of diamictite: It was during a controversy in the 1980s about peculiar rocks in South America (Carboniferous or Devonian, I forget) that everyone had been calling tillite.
About.com Geology 2010
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Composite alkalic plutonic suites and tuffaceous diamictite, although discontinuously exposed across central Idaho in roof pendants and inliers within the Idaho batholith and Challis volcanic-plutonic complex, define the more than 200-km-long northwest-aligned Big Creek-Beaverhead belt.
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