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AUTOCLASTIC ROCK [1 record]

Record 1 1991-03-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
DEF

A term originated by Smyth (1891) for a rock having a broken or brecciated structure, formed in the place where it is found as a result of crushing, shattering, dynamic metamorphism, orogenic forces, or other mechanical processes; ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
CONT

En ce qui concerne les roches détritiques, cinq divisions: 1) roches pyroclastiques: tufs volcaniques; 2) roches autoclastiques: brèches tectoniques; 3) roches aturoclastiques: brèches éluviales; 4) roches hydroclastiques: les roches détritiques formées dans l'eau; 5) roches bioclastiques (...)

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