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
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
Consolidation and cementation during the process of lithification of unconsolidated sediments into sedimentary rocks reduces primary porosity.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
The so-called secondary enrichment of many valuable veins is merely one of the special phases of cementation from a superficial source.
From The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith
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