mudstone

English

Etymology

From mud +‎ stone.

Noun

mudstone (plural mudstones)

1. (petrology) A fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were clays or muds. [from 18th c.]
   • 2018, Susannah Lydon, The Guardian, 23 March:

     The new fossils come from mudstones in central Poland, in beds that have been dated using other, much more common and cosmopolitan, fossils.

Derived terms

• metamudstone

Translations

a fine-grained sedimentary rock

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 泥岩 (zh) (níyán)

• Finnish: lietekivi, mutakivi
• Irish: láibchloch f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: marna (it)
• Japanese: 泥岩 (でいがん, deigan)
• Serbo-Croatian: muljnjak m

Anagrams

• demounts, unmodest