sedimentary
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A slab of sedimentary rock was covered in a wrinkled texture that looked strikingly like elephant skin.
From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026
Shale is, after all, the most common sedimentary rock and found all over the world.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026
The amber, dated to roughly 112 million years ago, belongs to the Hollín Formation, a sedimentary layer that stretches across Ecuador's Oriente Basin.
From Science Daily • Oct. 11, 2025
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
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
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