Examples of mudstone in a Sentence
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This is a land of limestone, sandstone, siltstone, and mudstone — basic sedimentary rock.
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Discover Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
All three holes intersected wide bands of favourable claystone and mudstones.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Jan. 2024
Bordering one surface, Liu noticed, was a small shelf of mudstone that bore a red patina.
—Robert Moor, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2016
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
Discover Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
All three holes intersected wide bands of favourable claystone and mudstones.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Jan. 2024
Bordering one surface, Liu noticed, was a small shelf of mudstone that bore a red patina.
—Robert Moor, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2016
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
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“Mudstone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mudstone. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.
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