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

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

Consolidation and cementation during the process of lithification of unconsolidated sediments into sedimentary rocks reduces primary porosity.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Favorable conditions may also be merely differences in porosity of beds in irregular zones, determined by differences either in original deposition or in later cementation.

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