DIAGENESIS


Meaning of DIAGENESIS in English

noun Etymology: New Latin Date: circa 1886 recombination or rearrangement of constituents (as of a chemical or mineral) resulting in a new product, the conversion (as by compaction or chemical reaction) of sediment into rock, diagenetic adjective diagenetically adverb

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