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    Tonstein (from the German "Ton", meaning clay, plus "Stein", meaning rock) is a hard, compact sedimentary rock that is composed mainly of kaolinite or...
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  • of water. However, the term bentonite, as well as a similar clay called tonstein, have been used for clay beds of uncertain origin. For industrial purposes...
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    Aeolis quadrangle Composition of Mars Timeline of Mars Science Laboratory Tonstein – Type of sedimentary rock Blatt, H., and R.J. Tracy, 1996, Petrology....
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    from recycled waste The Coal Question – Book by William Stanley Jevons Tonstein – Type of sedimentary rock World Coal Association – international non-profit...
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    631042. S2CID 84706899. Hess J.C., Lippolt H.J. (1986): 40Ar/39Ar ages of tonstein and tuff sanidines: new calibration points for the improvement of the Upper...
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  • layer about 0.8m thick (unit 2), capped by a 1 – 2 cm layer of impactite tonstein that is indistinguishable from other dual layered KPg impact ejection materials...
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  • few place the boundary within the Kasimovian. U-Pb radiometric dating of tonstein beds in Spain estimate that the Asturian lasted from 310.7 to 307.5 Ma...
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  • laterally continuous layers (bands), called "tonsteins", found within coal beds. In the case of tonsteins found within coal, the formation of flint clays...
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    extinction event. The boundary is represented in the basin by a 1-cm thick tonstein clay layer in the Raton Formation which has been found to contain anomalously...
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    and correlating sedimentary rocks and dating them. Volcanic ash beds (tonsteins and bentonite beds) and impact spherule beds, and specific megaturbidites...
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