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Table 1 Descriptive names for coherent lavas and intrusions.
               Graphic logging technique                       appearance and,   therefore,  requires  disciplined
                                                               observations, focusing on internal variations, the nature
               Graphic logging is pictorial representation of sections   and  position  of contacts, and relationships  between
               through sedimentary and/or volcanic sequences. The   successive parts of the sequence. This style of logging is
               aim is to record the  variations in textures, structures,   not  only a thorough system for  documenting
               bedforms, grain size, and contact relationships  by a   sedimentary and  volcanic sequences, but also steers
               schematic, simplified, pictorial summary. Graphic   observations  toward  those  features  that  aid
               logging is an  especially effective way of  representing   interpretation  of  emplacement  processes  and
               this information for  drillcore sections. The log should   depositional environments. Most standard exploration
               remind the observer, at a glance, of the actual deposit   drill log  forms and data sheets are  designed for

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