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Clastic sediment

Clastic sediment
Sediment in which at least 50 percent of the constituent particles were derived from erosion, weathering, or mass-wasting of pre-existing earth materials, and transported to the place of deposition by mechanical agents such as water, wind, ice and gravity.
SLTTs, 2004; Neuendorf et al., 2005

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