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The conglomerates pass gradually upwards into highly calcareous sediments ranging fromphylliteto siltstone and sandstone as well as limestone conglomerates.
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The upper part of the formation consists of interbedded debris-flow conglomerate and meta-siltstone/phyllite.
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It contains carbonaceousphyllitewith interbeds of crystalline limestone.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.With continued increase in metamorphic grade the sequence isphyllite, then schist and finally to gneiss.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The area was made ofphylliteand was the geologically most unstable area on the route.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The protolith (or parent rock) forphylliteis shale or pelite, or slate, which in turn came from a shale protolith.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Foliated metaconglomerate is created under the same metamorphic conditions that produce slate orphyllite, but with the parent rock (protolith) being conglomerate, rather than clay.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The two units meet as a saddle between the twin peaks of meta-argillite/phylliteand granite.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The tunnel runs through an area composed mostly of gneiss,phylliteand greenstone.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Underneath the sparagmite layer, lies a layer of extremely nutritious slate, calledphyllite.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Below the island the tunnel reaches a section of greenstone, before it higher up again runs through morephyllite.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Phylliteresults in a loamy, rapidly weathered gneiss in the east of the mountains producing a light soil.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The fault separated graphiticphyllitein the east from metasiltstone, argillite, quartz sandstone conglomerate on the west.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The highly shortened and foliatedphyllitebegan as a mudstone which was metamorphosed to shale.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Schist forms at a higher temperature and has larger grains thanphyllite.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.About 65% of the dam's foundation area is founded on quartzite andphyllitebedrock.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Naming based on texture and a pelite (e.g., shale, mudrock) protolith can be used to define slate andphyllite.
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