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Aeolian dune: Alabama Coastal Plain: Bangor Formation: Biface: a piece of lithic materal flaked on both sides from the same platform; often symmetrical, pointed, and with a teardrop shape.
Biogenic: Buhrstone: Cement: Chalcedony: Chert: Claystone: Conchoidal fracturing: Concretionary: Concretions: Core: a piece of lithic material from which flakes have been removed.
Crossed Nichols: Cryptocrystalline: Disconformably: Eocene: Fine to medium: Flakes: a detatched piece of lithic material, usually exhibiting a platform, bulb of percussion, and a feather termination.
Foraminifera: Formation: Fossiliferous limestone: Fracture planes: Garnet: "Ghost" grains: Glauconite: Glaucophane: Intergranular pore space: Isotropic: Knappable: Limestone: Limonite: Magnetite: Marine shelf environment: Marine shells: Massive: Member: Moderately well-sorted: Muscovite: Opal: Opal CT: Photomicrographs: Physiographic provinces: Plane polarized light: Polarized light: Pore-lining: Porosity: Quartz arenite: Quartzite: Siliciclastic edimentary rocks: Silicified: Sub-angular: Sub-rounded: Trace fossils: Volcanic ash: Zeolite mineral clinoptilolite: |
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