SEDIMENTARY


Meaning of SEDIMENTARY in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

basin

Smaller-scale inset maps will provide information on metamorphic grade of orogenic terrains and the structure of Phanerozoic sedimentary basins .

There are even more examples of very thin units that persist over fantastically large areas in particular sedimentary basins .

deposit

This phenomenon has been utilized for dating sedimentary deposits of quartz grains.

This picture is based on evidence derived from studying the shape of the landscape, sedimentary deposits and biological remains.

It has been added to by sedimentary deposits .

The most suitable places for fossilisation are in seas and lakes where sedimentary deposits like sandstones and limestones are slowly accumulating.

rock

There is already evidence that mining corporations are interested in probing beneath the sedimentary rocks to find new deposits.

Oil, gas, and coal, composed of organic carbon compounds, are found as economic deposits in sedimentary rocks .

It was formed by the heating and crushing of shale, a sedimentary rock which has hardened from mud.

On Earth, the deposit of sedimentary rock at the bottom of the ocean is part of larger geological cycles.

Limestone Any sedimentary rock consisting essentially of carbonates.

As the microcontinents collided, they piled up the sedimentary rock along their shores into mountain belts.

The sedimentary rocks , with their coal seams, have been folded and faulted.

But they did not connect their ideas to the much earlier extinctions recorded in sedimentary rocks .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

It was formed by the heating and crushing of shale, a sedimentary rock which has hardened from mud.

Limestone Any sedimentary rock consisting essentially of carbonates.

Oil, gas, and coal, composed of organic carbon compounds, are found as economic deposits in sedimentary rocks.

On Earth, the deposit of sedimentary rock at the bottom of the ocean is part of larger geological cycles.

The deposits eventually become pressed under sedimentary weight into stone.

There is already evidence that mining corporations are interested in probing beneath the sedimentary rocks to find new deposits.

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