wiki Word: Clastic |
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Small bits of rocks, or a rock made of small bits of sand or rock.
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A rock that is made of small pebbles is a clastic rock. A variation of this is pyroclastic, which is burning bits of rock like from a volcano.
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How does this term apply to any of our class labs?
This word has to do when we learned about volcanoes. It was not really used on its own for this unit. Pyroclastic was used with a larger range of topics. |
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Cite any sources used for the information on this page. Try to use MLA format. Micheal, Pidwirny. "Characterisics of Sedementary Rocks."Physical Geography (f). Febuary 2nd, 2006. Febuary 26, 2008 <http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/10f.html>. |
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