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shaley facies

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Silurian Period
Graptolites
Shaley facies generally represent deeper-water environments, such as those under which the Road River Group in the Yukon, the Aberystwyth Grit Formation in Wales, and the Longmaqi Formation of southern China accumulated. Fossils of graptolites—small, colonial, planktonic animals—are abundant in these dark Silurian shales. Graptolites…
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Shaley facies generally represent deeper-water environments, such as those under which the Road River Group in the Yukon, the Aberystwyth Grit Formation in Wales, and the Longmaqi Formation of southern China accumulated. Fossils of graptolites—small, colonial, planktonic animals—are abundant in these dark Silurian shales. Graptolites…
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