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flaser

(ˈflɑːzə)
n
a type of pattern or structure in sedimentary rock, caused by intermittent flows within the rock and characterized by alternate layers of larger particles and fine particles
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(1968): Classification and origin of flaser and lenticular bedding.
Revisiting the late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous of the NW South Iberian Basin: new ages and sedimentary environments
This rock contains wavy, flaser, and lenticular beds along with trace fossils, desiccation cracks, runzel marks, and current-formed ripples.
Geology of the Roman Catholic Basilica of St. John the Baptist, St. John's Newfoundland
Common sedimentary structures in these rocks, except underclays, include flaser bedding (Figure 3B), lenticular bedding, low-angle cross lamination, and convolute bedding.
Sedimentology, Palynology, and Sea Level Fluctuations Recorded From Two Pennsylvanian Cores From Northwestern Missouri
Flaser bedding is the dominant sedimentary structure in the sandstones beds; asymmetrical ripples are abundant and burrows are moderately common, indicating a marine environment with rapidly changing current speeds.
Facies and depositional environments of the early Cambrian, Khewra Sandstone, eastern Salt Range, Pakistan
This facies association contains cross-bedded oolitic grainstones that alternate with less abundant grey mudstones creating flaser, wavy and lenticular beddings (Fig.
Eustatic versus tectonic control in an intraplate rift basin (Leza Fm, Cameros Basin). Chronostratigraphic and paleogeographic implications for the Aptian of Iberia/ Control eustatico versus control tectonico en una cuenca de rift intraplaca (Fm Leza, Cuenca de Cameros). Implicaciones cronoestratigraficas y paleogeograficas para el Aptiense de Iberia
(2005) is exposed at the quarry, and the lithology varies from plane bedded, clay-draped sandstone to flaser cross-bedded sandstone.
Insights into an Early Jurassic dinosaur habitat: ichnofacies and enigmatic structures from the Portland Formation, Hoover Quarry, Massachusetts, U.S.A
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