Aleurite
Aleurite ( Russian алеврит alewrit ; from ancient Greek ἄλευρον aleuron , wheat flour or grist ) is a coarse silty and / or fine sand loose sediment with grain sizes of 0.01 to 0.1 mm, with coarse aleurite (0.05 to 0.1 mm) and fine aleurite (0.01 to 0.05 mm) can be differentiated. The term was coined in the 1930s by the Russian- Soviet petrographer Alexander Zavaritsky and is now used relatively rarely and in fact only in Eastern Europe and in the Asian successor states of the Soviet Union .
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- Hans Murawski, Wilhelm Meyer: Geological dictionary. 12th edition. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8274-1810-4 , p. 5
- Алеврит in the dictionary part of the Russian website Все о Геологии (geo.web.ru)
