What is Mudstone?
Mudstone is a kind of Murdock chiefly contains mud or clay in its composition. It is fine-grained sedimentary rock with a grain size of 0.063mm. Thus, minute grain size renders it impermeable for water or any liquid to pass through and leave useless for the construction industry in the direct applications.
Formation of Mudstone
When very fine-grained clay particles are depositing in water and overtime buried and compacted thanks to sedimentation process turn into mudstone.
Types of Mudrock
Mudrock is a parent class, and mudstone is a category. Siltstone, Claystone, and mudstone are three categories of mudrock and shale and argillite are sub-categories of mudstone.
Properties of Mudrock & Its Categories like Mudstone
Let’s see the differences and characteristic of each category and sub-category falls into Mudrock.
Siltstone
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- Grain Size (in µm) – Min. 4 to Max. 64
- It contains more than 50% of silts-sized particles.
- It is lithified & non-fissile mudrock.
- It is 1/16 of a millimeter in particle size.
- Himalaya in India is the biggest reservoir of silt in the world.
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