rock fragment

collocation in English

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rock
noun
uk
/rɒk/us
/rɑːk/
the dry solid part of the earth's surface, or any large piece of this that sticks up out of the ground or ...
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fragment
noun[C]
uk
/ˈfræɡ.mənt/us
/ˈfræɡ.mənt/
a small piece or a part, especially when broken from ...
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(Definition ofrockandfragmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The inner boundary of a weathering rind approximately parallels the outer surface of therockfragmentin which it has developed.
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During the excavation, a portion of a charcoal drawing on arockfragmentwas found which was radiocarbon dated at 28,000 years.
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These can include grains which are sand-sized themselves (a graniticrockfragment), or finer-grained materials (shale fragments).
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The volcaniclastic siltstone is composed of crystals (olivine, pyroxene, quartz), glass (globules and irregularly shaped shards) and rock fragments.
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The rock fragments are mainly rhyolite, granite, and spherulite of rhyolite, with very small amounts of muscovite-quartz schist and hornfels exhibiting a granoblastic texture.
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Most of these sedimentary rock fragments are restricted to coarse arenites and fine diamictites.
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Two rock fragments comprising a mosaic of quartz and feldspar 1 mm across were identified.
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Pre-sulphide brecciation is common with dolomite, quartz and minor calcite cementing rock fragments.
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Proportions were not measured because of small area of rock fragments.
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The term greywacke can be confusing, since it can refer to either the immature (rockfragment) aspect of the rock or the fine-grained (clay) component of the rock.
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The mineral is thought to have formed as a replacement product of unstable rock fragments.
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A possibility is volcanic eruption, which would readily release water from the magma resulting in an increased solidus temperature, thus enhancing mineral growth on the existing rock fragments.
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A wide variety of shallow-water bioclasts are present, including microbial carbonate, coral, echinoids and shell fragments, together with chert, sandstone, siltstone, dolomite, and both igneous and metamorphic rock fragments.
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Dolomite emplacement must have been a consequence of high fluid pressure to cause such brecciation and allow suspension of rock fragments in the dolomite.
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Rounding of rock fragments less common in the mesothermal regime, as the formational event is brief.
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Xenocrysts or rock fragments incorporated during the violent eruptional and depositional events are also encountered.
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Rock fragments with weathering rinds normally are discrete clasts ranging is size from pebbles to cobbles or boulders.
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The most varied rock fragments melt and shed their salts into the water, mineralising it.
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They commonly contain tongues of mineral and organic horizons, organic and mineral intrusions and oriented rock fragments.
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