Mudstone
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Mudstone is a noun meaning (petrology) A fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were clays or muds.
Meaning
(petrology) A fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were clays or muds.
Example Sentences
The new fossils come from mudstones in central Poland, in beds that have been dated using other, much more common and cosmopolitan, fossils.
Excavation of the twin bore tunnel will produce around 500,000 tonnes of mudstone and soil, which will be processed on site and then reused to build embankments elsewhere along the route.
Word Forms
- mudstones
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include mudrock, claystone, metamudstone, siltstone, sandstone, metasediment.
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