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MICROSTYLOLITE [1 record]

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Record 1 2012-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Petrography
DEF

A microscale discontinuity with offset or wave-like shapes that may truncate grains or other markers such as bedding planes or fossils ...

OBS

Individual protrusions on a microstylolite are called teeth or columns, which may have flat crowns at the top and steep walls along their sides ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Génie chimique
  • Pétrographie
CONT

La valeur de cette contrainte mécanique est difficilement appréciable; il faudrait connaître les paramètres contrôlant le seuil de rupture des liaisons intergranulaires, et celui de l'apparition des microstylolites au contact des grains.

Spanish

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