Lithology
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Description
The look-up table LUT_LITHOLOGY from AusPlots Rangelands.
Definition
The lithology of a rock unit is a description of its physical characteristics visible at outcrop, in hand or core samples, or with low magnification microscopy. Physical characteristics include colour, texture, grain size, and composition.
Hierarchy
expand all- Adamellite
- Agglomerate
- Alcrete (bauxite)
- Amphibolite
- Andesite
- Anhydrite
- Aplite
- Arkose
- Ash (fine)
- Ash (sandy)
- Basalt
- Bombs (volcanic)
- Breccia
- Calcarenite
- Calcareous mudstone
- Calcareous sand
- Calcilutite
- Calcirudite
- Calcrete
- Charcoal
- Chert
- Clay
- Coal
- Conglomerate
- Consolidated rock (unidentified)
- Detrital sedimentary rock (unidentified)
- Diorite
- Dolerite
- Dolomite
- Ferricrete
- Gabbro
- Gneiss
- Granite
- Granodiorite
- Granulite
- Gravel
- Graywacke
- Greenstone
- Gypsum
- Halite
- Hornfels
- Igneous rock (unidentified)
- Ironstone (where not considered of pedogenic origin)
- Jasper
- Limestone
- Marble
- Marl
- Metamorphic rock (unidentified)
- Microdiorite
- Microgranite
- Microsyenite
- Migmatite
- Mudstone
- Mylonite
- N/A
- None Apparent
- Not Applicable
- Not Collected
- Opalised Wood
- Pegmatite
- Peridotite
- Phonolite
- Phyllite
- Porcellanite
- Porphyry
- Pumice
- Pyroxenite
- Quartz
- Quartz porphyry
- Quartz sandstone
- Quartzite
- Red-brown hardpan
- Rhyolite
- Same as Substrate Lithology
- Sand
- Sandstone
- Schist
- Scoria
- Serpentinite
- Shale
- Shells
- Silcrete
- Silt
- Siltstone
- Slate
- Syenite
- Trachyte
- Tuff
- Unconsolidated material (unidentified)
- Volcanic breccia
- Volcanic glass
source
White, A, Sparrow, B., Leitch, E., Foulkes, J., Flitton, R., Lowe, A.J., Caddy-Retalic, S. (2012). AusPlots Rangelands Survey Protocols Manual. Version 1.2.9 page 74. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network and The University of Adelaide Press. https://doi.org/10.25901/5f2ca309cc9c2
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