mudstone

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mudstone

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From mud + stone.

noun mudstones

countable, uncountable A fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were clays or muds. The new fossils come from mudstones in central Poland, in beds that have been dated using other, much more common and cosmopolitan, fossils.

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noun a fine-grained sedimentary rock

Español	fangolita
日本語	泥岩 deigan
中文	泥岩 níyán
Italiano	marna

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@misc{mudstone_2026,
  title = {mudstone},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mudstone},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}