cementation

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According to Jean-Paul Raynal, who co-directed the program during the key excavation period, repeated changes in sea level, wind-driven sedimentation, and rapid cementation of coastal sands created ideal conditions for preserving fossils and archaeological evidence.

From Science Daily • Feb. 7, 2026

The processes of cementation, compaction, and ultimately lithification occur within the realm of diagenesis, which includes the processes that turn organic material into fossils.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

These iron oxides coat and bind mineral grains together into sedimentary rocks in a process called cementation and often give these rocks a dominant color.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

These processes of compaction and cementation are called lithification.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

Dynamic and contact metamorphism may in some cases produce rocks identical in appearance with those produced by ordinary processes of cementation and recrystallization without movement.

From The Economic Aspect of Geology by Leith, C. K. (Charles Kenneth)