Definition of Clastics

1. clastic [n] - See also: clastic

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clastics

clast
clastic
clastic anatomy
clastic rock
clastics (current term)
clastogen
clastogenesis
clastogenic
clastogens
clastothrix
clasts
clat
clatch
clatched
clatches
clatching
clathrate
clathrate compound

Literary usage of Clastics

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Textbook of Geology by Amadeus William Grabau (1920)
"In those non-clastics, the formation of the rock from the magma or the state of solution and vapor, was primarily a chemical process, and therefore the ..."

2. A Comprehensive Geology by Amadeus William Grabau (1920)
"In those non-clastics, the formation of the rock from the magma or the state of solution and vapor, was primarily a chemical process, and therefore the ..."

3. Pennsylvania Glaciation, First Phase: Materials for a Discussion of the by Edward Higginson Williams (1917)
"The expected clastics come from the lowest New York outcrops up to the Pocono. ... Susquehanna Drift Crystallines and clastics to be expected, as in No. 2. ..."

4. Research in China by Eliot Blackwelder, Bailey Willis, Rufus Harvey Sargent, Friedrich Hirth (1907)
"The sequence of sediments ranges from clastics of rather fine grain to carbonates; ... The clastics are terrigenous deposits, probably of the littoral zone. ..."

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