E. F. McBride
Geo. 420K
Spring, 2000

FACIES Definitions:

1) Aspects of a rock that characterize it (minerals, fossils, color, etc).

2) Mappable, areally restricted part of a lithostratigraphic body that differs from its coeval equivalents.

3) A distinctive rock type that is characteristic of a particular environment: black shale facies, bioherm facies, channel facies, turbidite facies.

4) A body of rock distinguished on the basis of its fossil content: Ophiomorpha facies, Exogyra texana facies.

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Geological Sciences
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