Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In geology, composed of fine sediment or mud.
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Examples
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High-grade uranium mineralization encountered in these drill holes occurs primarily in basement rocks that are a heterogeneous mix of variably clay-altered to clay-replaced pelitic gneiss, graphitic pelitic gneiss, granitic pegmatite and microgranite.
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The electromagnetic conductor was explained by graphitic pelitic basement rocks in 6 of the 13 drill holes.
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RL08-06 intersected a radioactive fracture approximately 39 metres below the unconformity within a pelitic unit which returned 102 ppm U over 0.3 m from 150.0 and 150.3 m.
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RL08-02 encountered a radioactive structure within pelitic basement rocks that returned 180 ppm U over 1.0 m from 118.0 to 119.0 m.
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A select collection of poems: with notes [by J. Nichols]. 1781
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- within a magnetic low believed to represent pelitic basement rocks, a typical host rock for economic uranium mineralization
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