sedimentary

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The leftover carbon dioxide will be stored deep beneath the North Sea in sedimentary bedrock and will gradually mineralize over time.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

"These metamorphosed sedimentary rocks that have melted and produced granites that concentrate uranium and thorium are like black box flight recorders that record pressure and temperature," Smye said.

From Science Daily • May 8, 2024

At the top there is, like frosting on a cake, shale mud, Altamira Shale, the sedimentary legacy of those seabed millennia.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2024

A research team at Tsinghua University in China also calls plastistone “an emerging type of sedimentary rock.”

From Slate • Apr. 27, 2024

In the event, the sedimentary layer was 50 percent deeper than expected and the basaltic layer was never found at all.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson