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Figure 19: Foliated ground-ice mass (ice wedge) in organic rich silt exposed by god-minig operations on Wilber Creek, near Livengood, Alaska

confluence of the Solimões River and the Negro River

A chart categorizes common textural terms for rocks by grain size in millimeters, dividing them into igneous and metamorphic, sedimentary, and pyroclastic types, with terms like phaneritic, sand, silt, breccia, and ash shown in relation to size.

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