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Arkoseis a sand or sandstone with considerable feldspar content, derived from weathering and erosion of a (usually nearby) granitic rock outcrop.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Arkoseis often associated with conglomerate deposits sourced from granitic terrain and is often found above unconformities in the immediate vicinity of granite terrains.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Arkosesandstones are more than 25 percent feldspar.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Its cliffs, made ofarkosesandstone, are a very prominent landscape feature visible for miles.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The sand often contains kaolinized feldspar, making it anarkose.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Arkosic sand is sand that is similarly rich in feldspar, and thus the potential precursor ofarkose.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The sand grains making up anarkosemay range from fine to very coarse, but tends toward the coarser end of the scale.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It was described as red shale and sandstone with beds of micaceous sandstone,arkose, and conglomerate.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Grus sand, when cemented into a sandstone, will form anarkose.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Fossils are rare inarkose, due to the depositional processes that form it, although bedding is frequently visible.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These types of sediments are typically formed during orogenic deformation; for example, thearkosedetrital sedimentary rock found in fault troughs.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It consists of turbiditic sandstone (subgraywacke andarkose) interbedded with secondary siltstone, mudstone, tuff, volcaniclastic sedimentary rock, agglomerate, and conglomerate, which have all been metamorphosed to prehnitepumpellyite to blueschist facies.
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