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chert

Description: A hard, fine-grained sedimentary rock composed mainly of cryptocrystalline silica, studied in geology and used by humans for tools.
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Plate Tectonics and Sandstone Compositions
1979 · William R. Dickinson, Christopher A. Suczek · AAPG Bulletin · 1,827
Petrology of Sedimentary Rocks
2009 · Sam Boggs, Jr. · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 1,481
Estimations of Clarkes for Carbonaceous biolithes: World averages for trace element contents in black shales and coals
2009 · M.P. Ketris, Ya.E. Yudovich · International Journal of Coal Geology · 1,465
Microfossils of the Early Archean Apex Chert: New Evidence of the Antiquity of Life
1993 · J. William Schopf · Science · 1,362
Particle shape: a review and new methods of characterization and classification
2007 · SIMON J. BLOTT, KENNETH PYE · Sedimentology · 882
Sedimentary facies of iron-formation
1954 · Harold Lloyd James · Economic Geology · 685
Joint spacing in sedimentary rocks
1991 · W. Narr, J. Suppe · Journal of Structural Geology · 554
Accreted oceanic materials in Japan
1990 · Y. Isozaki, S. Maruyama, et al. · Tectonophysics · 535
The Yanbian Terrane (Southern Sichuan Province, SW China): A Neoproterozoic arc assemblage in the western margin of the Yangtze Block
2005 · M ZHOU, Y MA, et al. · Precambrian Research · 522
A palaeotemperature curve for the Precambrian oceans based on silicon isotopes in cherts
2006 · François Robert, Marc Chaussidon · Nature · 509
H 2 O subduction beyond arcs
2008 · Bradley R. Hacker · Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems · 505
Expansion of Concrete through Reaction between Cement and Aggregate
1942 · Thomas E. Stanton · Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers · 499
Hydrogen and oxygen isotope ratios in nodular and bedded cherts
1976 · L.Paul Knauth, Samuel Epstein · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · 495
The evolutionary diversification of cyanobacteria: Molecular–phylogenetic and paleontological perspectives
2006 · Akiko Tomitani, Andrew H. Knoll, et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 469
High Archean climatic temperature inferred from oxygen isotope geochemistry of cherts in the 3.5 Ga Swaziland Supergroup, South Africa
2003 · L. Paul Knauth, Donald R. Lowe · Geological Society of America Bulletin · 465
Chemical criteria to identify the depositional environment of chert: general principles and applications
1994 · Richard W. Murray · Sedimentary Geology · 464
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Spatial variation in sediment fluxes, redox conditions, and productivity in the Permian–Triassic Panthalassic Ocean
2010 · Thomas J. Algeo, Kiyoko Kuwahara, et al. · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · 457
Geochemistry and sedimentology of a facies transition from limestone to iron-formation deposition in the early Proterozoic Transvaal Supergroup, South Africa
1989 · Cornelis Klein, Nicolas J. Beukes · Economic Geology · 407
Rare earth, major, and trace elements in chert from the Franciscan Complex and Monterey Group, California: Assessing REE sources to fine-grained marine sediments
1991 · Richard W Murray, Marilyn R Buchholtz Ten Brink, et al. · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · 406
Rare earth elements as indicators of different marine depositional environments in chert and shale
1990 · Richard W. Murray, Marilyn R. Buchholtz ten Brink, et al. · Geology · 394
Secular change in the Precambrian silica cycle: Insights from chert petrology
2005 · Robert G. Maliva, Andrew H. Knoll, et al. · Geological Society of America Bulletin · 377
Early Archean fossil bacteria and biofilms in hydrothermally-influenced sediments from the Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa
2001 · Frances Westall, Maarten J de Wit, et al. · Precambrian Research · 356
Exploring for a record of ancient Martian life
1999 · Jack D. Farmer, David J. Des Marais · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 352
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Ophiolites in Earth History
2004 · Jane Selverstone · Eos · 350
Sound velocity–density relations in sea-floor sediments and rocks
1978 · Edwin L. Hamilton · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 324
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