Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In petrography, a term introduced by Grabau (1904) for an indurated rock of any composition or origin.
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Examples
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The two year contract covers an area of 10.000 kilometres in the north of the country and will try to locate formations of lutite
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"The minimum exploration program includes the analysis of samples, lutite maturing models and a feasibility study", said German Riet, Ancap chairman of the board.
MercoPress 2009
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US company Schuepbach Energy from Dallas will be looking for possible traces of natural gas in lutite sedimentary rocks during a two year period in an area of 10.000 square kilometres.
MercoPress 2009
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These carbonaceous dark lutite with intercalated graphite, manto-like units can carry extremely high silver and gold grades, such as in hole BD-08-3 which had a manto section that graded 9.87 gms gold / tonne and 3,090 gms silver / tonne.
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