sedimentary
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Pyrite, sometimes called "fool's gold" because of its metallic shine, is an iron sulfide mineral commonly found in sedimentary environments.
From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 2026
Shale is, after all, the most common sedimentary rock and found all over the world.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026
Comparing the findings of the 1964 earthquake core samples to samples deeper in the coastal stratigraphy, the research team discovered sedimentary and diatom evidence of three other instances where the splay fault ruptured.
From Science Daily • May 20, 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
“Your noble experiment in sedimentary cuisine,” he said.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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