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clastic rock

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Noun1.clastic rock - (geology) a rock composed of broken pieces of older rocks
geology - a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks
clast - (geology) a constituent fragment of a clastic rock
rock, stone - a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter; "he threw a rock at me"


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2) Grouse Property - located 7 km SE of Barkerville along Grouse Creek: 6 holes, 825 m to test alteration and mineralization at contact of limestone and clastic rock.
The BPV property, one mile west of CONO is underlain by upper-plate clastic rocks and chert but lower-plate carbonate rocks may occur at depths that could be economically attractive.
Disseminated gold and silver mineralization occurs in stratabound zones spatially related to a regional slip fault zone lying at the unconformity between Lower Carboniferous limestones and overlying Upper Triassic clastic rocks.
 
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