depositional
- a word derived from deposition.
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The team also examined sediment structures, mineralogy, diatoms and geochemistry to characterize the depositional record.
From Science Daily • Feb. 21, 2024
Instead, they found a signal from depositional environments, the different kinds of sites where sediments accumulated preserved markedly different groups.
From Science Daily • Feb. 14, 2024
"We found that variations in the isotopic composition of pyrite are mostly a function of the depositional environment in which the pyrite formed," Halevy said.
From Science Daily • Nov. 24, 2023
Sedimentary rocks can also have distinctive structures that are important in determining their depositional environments.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
But, on the whole, all parts of the lands except strips next the coast may be reckoned as having been subjected to an excess of wearing action far exceeding the depositional work.
From Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography by Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate
