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Affolter, M.D. and Hendrix, M. S., 2004, Correlations between volcanic lithic fragments and volcanic rock, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 36, No. 5, p. 370
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Mathew D. Affolter, Raymond V. Ingersoll; Quantitative Analysis of Volcanic Lithic Fragments. Journal of Sedimentary Research ; 89 (6): 479–486. doi:
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fraction. Sand grains in sedimentary rocks that are fragments of larger rocks that are not identified using the Gazzi-Dickinson method are usually called
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Microlitic volcanic lithic fragment, scale in millimeters. Top picture in plane-polarized light, bottom picture in cross-polarized light.
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Lathwork volcanic lithic fragment, scale in millimeters. Top picture in plane-polarized light, bottom picture in cross-polarized light.
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Vitric volcanic lithic fragment, scale in millimeters. Top picture in plane-polarized light, bottom picture in cross-polarized light.
17: 311: 107:). These correlations between composition and volcanic lithic fragment type are approximate, at best. By definition, 304: 335: 285: 297: 59: 224: 166: 47: 8: 330: 55: 75: 43: 281: 108: 104: 35: 324: 67: 51: 162: 46:. They were first described and named (in their modern definitions) by 63: 255: 277: 123: 71: 143: 96: 92: 269: 227:(1970). "Interpreting detrital modes of graywacke and arkose". 139: 111:
igneous rock fragments can not be considered lithic fragments.
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in 1970. Lithic fragments can be derived from sedimentary,
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Index

Lithic Fragment (geology)
rocks
sand
sedimentary rock
Bill Dickinson
igneous
metamorphic rocks
Gazzi-Dickinson point-counting method
sand-size
rock fragments
Sandstones
lithic sandstones
rhyolitic
andesitic
basaltic
glassy
intrusive
shale
siltstone
chert
schist
phyllite
Granular volcanic lithic fragment, scale in millimeters Top picture in plane-polarized light, bottom picture in cross-polarized light.
millimeters
polarized
Microlitic volcanic lithic fragment, scale in millimeters. Top picture in plane-polarized light, bottom picture in cross-polarized light.
Lathwork volcanic lithic fragment, scale in millimeters. Top picture in plane-polarized light, bottom picture in cross-polarized light.
Vitric volcanic lithic fragment, scale in millimeters. Top picture in plane-polarized light, bottom picture in cross-polarized light.
Dickinson, W. R.
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