Mudcracks (also known as mud cracks, desiccation cracks or cracked mud) are sedimentary structures formed as muddy sediment dries and contracts.[1][2] Crack formation also occurs in clay-bearing soils as a result of a reduction in water content.
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^Stow, D.A., 2005, Sedimentary Rocks in the Field, Academic Press, London, 320 p.
Mudcracks (also known as mud cracks, desiccation cracks or cracked mud) are sedimentary structures formed as muddy sediment dries and contracts. Crack...
to their original volume. This produces distinctive textures, such as mudcracks or "popcorn" texture, in clay deposits. Soils containing swelling clay...
environments where currents reverse directions, such as tidal flats. Mudcracks are a bed form caused by the dehydration of sediment that occasionally...
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water that runs through it. Basalt fan structure Honeycomb conjecture Mudcrack Prism (geology) Syneresis crack Oregon State University > Volcano World...
objects such as car doors or drink cans. Tessellation is apparent in the mudcrack-like cracking of thin films – with a degree of self-organisation being...
plants while the sediment layers consist of thin sand and mud layers. Mudcracks are a common as well as wavy bedding planes. Marshes are also the origins...
average direction of these can be assumed to be the axis of flow direction. Mudcracks form when mud is dewatered, shrinks, and leaves a crack. This tells you...
verify the authenticity of artwork with high accuracy. Crazing Patina Mudcrack Bucklow, Spike (1997). "The Description of Craquelure Patterns". Studies...
quartz-rich of interlayered red argillite and siltite characterized by mudcracks and interstratified with abundant white, crossbedded quartzite and sandstone...
after closing the entrance; this adaption protects the pupae against mudcracks when the mud dries up, as a spreading crack would change direction when...
outcrop). In sedimentary rocks this may include sole markings, ripple marks, mudcracks and cross-bedding. These are recorded as they are generally characteristic...
argillite, siltstone and sandstone; argillaceous and stromatolitic dolomite; mudcracks and ripple marks are common. shallow marine (peritidal) 1,300 m (4,270 ft)...
great variety of environments and conditions throughout its stratigraphy. Mudcracks, Caliche, plant remains, bird footprints, channeling, signs of evaporation...
observed. It is possible that the Sun's heat is causing fractures similar to mudcracks in a dry lake bed. This occurs because Phaethon's orbit takes it closer...
invaded a growing desert (see 6b in figure 1). Some Coconino fills deep mudcracks in the underlying Hermit Shale and the desert that created the Coconino...
suggest seasonal precipitation. Rocks also included dinosaur tracks, mudcracks, and fossils of crustaceans and fish, which provide climate evidence,...
or random crack network is a mathematical model for the formation of mudcracks, needle-like crystals, and similar structures. It is named after Edgar...
Emerald Pool Trail, and it is properly called Navajo, not Kayenta. Fossil mudcracks attest to occasional seasonal climate, and thin limestones and fossilized...
formed subaqueously on the bedding surface and could resemble desiccation mudcracks, but are not continuous and vary in shape. They commonly occur in thin...
textures in boulders take on the form of channels, grooves, "potholes", "mudcracks", and intense pitting. In some cases, the textures are so distinctive...
proportions of smectite and mica, frequent slickensides, wedge-shaped crevices (mudcracks in cross-section), and strong redoximorphic features such as gleying and...
of this pollen doesn't indicate proper dry conditions, as for example mudcrack and other indicators of strong dry seasons are mostly absent, while common...
'plates' that tend to be concave upward, that characterizes the formation of mudcracks in fine-grained sediments. Often, the outlines of the polygons formed...
lakes, woods and forests. Many fossil traces (footprints, ripple marks, mudcracks) indicate that swampy areas, which were the most extensive habitat, were...
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