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Mudstone is made up of tiny particles of clay. It is used to make things such as pottery, roof tiles, and bricks. It is also used with limestone to make cement.
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Sedimentary rock also known as mudstone?
No. Mudstone is sedimentary rock, but not all sedimentary rock is mudstone. Sandstone and limestone are other common varities of sedimentary rock.
How would you distinguish a sample of peat from a sample of mudstone that contains fossil plant fragments?
Peat would remain largely unconsolidated. Mudstone is a rock.
How would you distinguish a sample of calcarenite from a sample of mudstone with fossil shells?
Calcarenite has sandsized shell fragments and sometimes a few larger whole fossil shells. Mudstone is mostly comprised of silt or clay and may or maynot contain fossils, the mudstone will break, fissil, or crumble.
How do you distinguish a sample of a calcarenite fossiliferous limestone from a sample of carbonite mudstone with fossil shells?
The calcarenite matrix will fizz when weak acids are applied. The carbonite mudstone matrix will not fizz.
What is another name for shale?
Another name for shale is mudstone
What is hard mudstone?
Mudstone is hard when its place in the sun
Is mudstone igneous or sedimentary?
Mudstone is sedimentary
What was made from mudstone?
Mudstone is used to make types of walls in the desert to keep in heat and keep out cool another type of substance used with mudstone is cow dung this is to keep the wall strong during summer and winter against the harsh wether of the desert. I hope this helped. Thanks by Anonymous!!
Is mudstone a rock or a mineral?
Mudstone is a clasitc sedimentary rock.
What type of a rock is mudstone?
Mudstone is a clastic sedimentary rock.
How is mudstone made?
Mudstone is a mudrock. It is made of clay minerals and other very small pieces of rock. Mudstone is sedimentary.
Which rock has the smallest particles mudstone or conglomerate?
mudstone has smaller particles :D
Sedimentary rock also known as mudstone?
No. Mudstone is sedimentary rock, but not all sedimentary rock is mudstone. Sandstone and limestone are other common varities of sedimentary rock.
Is mudstone a Metamorphic rock?
Mudstone is the fine grained sedimentary rock that were clays or muds originally.
What rhymes with bloodstone?
mudstone
What changes into shale?
mudstone
Would a tunnel excavated in granite require more or less support than a tunnel excavated in mudstone?
Granite is much harder than mudstone, so mudstone would require more support.
