mudstone

noun

mud·stone ˈməd-ˌstōn

: an indurated shale produced by the consolidation of mud

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Its robotic arm drilled a 2.5-inch borehole in mudstone bedrock. —

Adam Hadhazy, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2013 Galestro is a crumbly marl (mudstone) made of layered limestone and sandstone. —

Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022 Salt crystals left impressions in 3.5 billion-year-old mudstone, part of WesternAustralia's Pilbara Craton. —

Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 11 June 2019 The mudstone and carbonate sediment around the specimens indicates that the site had been deep underwater. —

Max G. Levy, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2022 Perseverance has, for example, identified a 3-foot-wide mudstone, dubbed Wildcat Ridge, that contains organic compounds and likely formed billions of years ago as mud and sandy sediments were deposited in an evaporating lake. —

Denise Chow, NBC News, 15 Sep. 2022 It was embedded in two large chunks of sandstone and mudstone unearthed in 2019 from a construction project in the Otay Ranch area of San Diego County. —

Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2022 Located between layers of purplish-red mudstone and grayish-yellow sandstone were several armor plates and the shoulder, thigh, feet, back and rib bones of a stegosaur. —

Ashley Strickland, CNN, 3 Mar. 2022 Formed of mudstone dating to the Middle Triassic epoch, the rock could not have originated in the Krapina rockshelter, which is composed of sandstone. —

David W. Frayer, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022 See More

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