Lithological

•Surface morphology is influenced by lithological characteristics. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The lithological mosaic and related slope stability and water quality issues are different from Ecoregions 15 and 17. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In places, the border also follows the lithological break between coarser and finer members of the Catskill Formation and is near the potential natural vegetation line dividing Northern Hardwoods from Appalachian Oak Forest (Cuff and others, 1989, p. 52). ❋ Unknown (2008)

The boundary between Ecoregion 69d and the Ridge and Valley (67) approximates a major structural topographical, lithological, elevational, and land use break. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A regional mid-Oligocene unconformity, the Marshall Paraconformity, lies within the limestone interval onshore and correlates with hiatuses in at least two, and possibly three, offshore exploration wells and with a temporary lithological change from limestone to quartz sand at a fourth. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The Corsican Mountains belong to the Alpine orogenic system, distinguished by a very complex lithological composition and relief. ❋ Unknown (2008)

From the geological point of view, the Pindus mountain ranges belong to the Alpine orogenic system, distinguished by a very complex lithological composition. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Gunung Mulu lies in the north-west Borneo geosynclinal belts and the geology includes all the major lithological units. ❋ Unknown (2008)

From the geological point of view, the Iberian mountain ranges belong to the Alpine orogenic system, being composed of a very complex lithological composition. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Geologically, this ecoregion has a very complex lithological composition and relief. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The North African Mountains are of alpine orogenic origin and contain a complex lithological composition, including sedimentary rocks such as sandstone, dolomite, limestone and marl, crystalline metamorphic rocks such as quartzite and schist, as well as igneous granites and volcanic formations. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The Cyprus Mountains belong to the Alpine orogenic system, being characterized by a very complex lithological composition and relief. ❋ Unknown (2007)

A lithological succession changes with the local environment – it can therefore not become a globally correlateable boundary. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Evidently Smit assumes that lithological changes are time correlative, but anyone who has taken Geology 101 knows that lithological changes are time transgressive. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Only when a lithological change is induced by a global event, such as the KT clay layer, the KT carbon-13 shift, the late Cenomanian carbon-13 shift in association with global anoxia and organic-rich sediments, can lithology be used as one of the criteria in conjunction with the geochemical markers. ❋ Unknown (2006)

He states that “What biostratigraphers forget is that boundary stratotypes are NOT defined on biostratigraphic criteria, but are a “golden spike” in a sedimentary succession, chosen on lithological criteria.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

In the process he dismisses the geochemical, lithological and stratigraphic criteria – while at the same paying them lip service as in his CCNet comment. ❋ Unknown (2006)

They are are located at the contact point between two uplifted lithological units, the Jalama Shale and the Jalama Sandstone. ❋ Unknown (2006)