Descriptive nomenclature and classification of pyroclastic deposits and fragments: Recommendations of the IUGS Subcommission on the Systematics of Igneous Rocks
Abstract
The IUGS Subcommission on the Systematics of Igneous Rocks herein presents its recommendations on the nomenclature and classification of pyroclastic and mixed pyroclastic-epiclastic deposits using descriptive, mainly granulometric, criteria. The recommendations are the result of an international inquiry by means of questionnaires during the last four years.
- Publication:
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Geologische Rundschau
- Pub Date:
- June 1981
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1981GeoRu..70..794S
- Keywords:
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- Igneous Rock;
- International Inquiry;
- Pyroclastic Deposit;
- Descriptive Nomenclature;
- IUGS Subcommission