adjective
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■ NOUN
basin
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Smaller-scale inset maps will provide information on metamorphic grade of orogenic terrains and the structure of Phanerozoic sedimentary basins .
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There are even more examples of very thin units that persist over fantastically large areas in particular sedimentary basins .
deposit
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This phenomenon has been utilized for dating sedimentary deposits of quartz grains.
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This picture is based on evidence derived from studying the shape of the landscape, sedimentary deposits and biological remains.
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It has been added to by sedimentary deposits .
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The most suitable places for fossilisation are in seas and lakes where sedimentary deposits like sandstones and limestones are slowly accumulating.
rock
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There is already evidence that mining corporations are interested in probing beneath the sedimentary rocks to find new deposits.
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Oil, gas, and coal, composed of organic carbon compounds, are found as economic deposits in sedimentary rocks .
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It was formed by the heating and crushing of shale, a sedimentary rock which has hardened from mud.
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On Earth, the deposit of sedimentary rock at the bottom of the ocean is part of larger geological cycles.
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Limestone Any sedimentary rock consisting essentially of carbonates.
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As the microcontinents collided, they piled up the sedimentary rock along their shores into mountain belts.
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The sedimentary rocks , with their coal seams, have been folded and faulted.
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But they did not connect their ideas to the much earlier extinctions recorded in sedimentary rocks .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It was formed by the heating and crushing of shale, a sedimentary rock which has hardened from mud.
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Limestone Any sedimentary rock consisting essentially of carbonates.
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Oil, gas, and coal, composed of organic carbon compounds, are found as economic deposits in sedimentary rocks.
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On Earth, the deposit of sedimentary rock at the bottom of the ocean is part of larger geological cycles.
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The deposits eventually become pressed under sedimentary weight into stone.
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There is already evidence that mining corporations are interested in probing beneath the sedimentary rocks to find new deposits.