facies Meaning & Definition

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  • The roles of sea level and tectonics in controlling sedimentation and facies architecture are recurrent themes.

  • Only the facies lateralis, with the protuberances on the margo dorsolateralis of the os dentale, is visible.

  • It was not possible to study lateral facies differentiation at this site.

  • There is little vertical facies differentiation through these clinobeds which have formed from a continuous amalgamation of deposits.

  • Proximal/shallow clinoforms display round-edged exponential profiles, and changes in sediment fabrics and sedimentary structures along the clinoform, whereas vertical facies differentiation is limited.

  • Most of the island consists of pervasively overprinted, greenschist-facies sequences.

  • Temperatures of granulite-facies metamorphism: constraints from experimental phase equilibria and thermobarometry corrected for retrograde exchange.

  • Most of the facies buccalis is obscured by matrix.

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