siltstone's Usage Examples:

Other rock types include granite, limestone, sandstone and siltstone.

Sediments alternate between clay and siltstone, and coarsen upward into sands until the deposition of the Kanapoi volcanic tuff.

sedimentation; if buried, they may eventually become sandstone and siltstone (sedimentary rocks) through lithification.

varying types of mudrocks include siltstone, claystone, mudstone, slate, and shale.

siltstone and sandstone and the top of the formation is formed by a layer of glauconite bearing sand.

from clay in shales and claystones; through silt in siltstones; sand in sandstones; and gravel, cobble, to boulder sized fragments in conglomerates and breccias.

The lower part of these sandstones are almost unbedded being replaced upwards by half metre thick beds capped by siltstones often.

sedimentary facies of the Santo Domingo Formation are composed of sandstone, siltstone and mudstone and smaller amounts of conglomerate.

It is a sequence of fine grained clastic rocks (claystones, mudstones, siltstones) interbedded with freshwater carbonates.

The Hammamat sediments, common in Wadi Hammamat and referred to as bekhen stone, consist of greywackes and siltstones, which are slightly enriched in gold.

The siltstone hills are the most rugged followed by the sandstone while.

Artinskian shaly siltstone, calcareous siltstone, silty carbonate, phosphatic coquinas 143 m (470 ft) Telford Formation Asselian to Sakmarian sandy limestone.

Most of the fossils occur in the green siltstone beds and lower sandstones.

Synonyms:

sandstone,