tailings

Residual gamma-radiation-rich, sandy waste remaining after extraction of uranium from mined ore.

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The trek is not without hazard: If you start at dawn, temperatures can approach freezing at the top; then you may plunge through blustering winds or fog or rain that slickens the road.

Cruise Haleakala uphill, downhill, and sideways

The second cleavage crenulates and transposes the first, which typically carries a slicken lineation where lithons are deformed by crenulation.

Cleavages developed in mudstone during diagenesis and deformation: an example from the Carboniferous (Tournaisian), southeastern New Brunswick, Canada

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