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sedimentary

/sed-uh-men-tuh-ree/US // ˌsɛd əˈmɛn tə ri //UK // (ˌsɛdɪˈmɛntərɪ) //

沉积岩,沉积型,沉淀物,沉淀的

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or of the nature of sediment.
    • : Geology. formed by the deposition of sediment, as certain rocks.

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Examples

  • For example, the tilted layers of sedimentary rock and cementlike mixtures of coarse sand and pebbles in this rock feature, nicknamed “Delta Scarp,” confirm the delta’s wet history.

  • Their sedimentary remains formed the building blocks of limestone and other soluble rocks.

  • “I’m trying to do justice to my feeling of what the mind is like — it’s sedimentary,” Sacks told Joshua Rothman in a New Yorker profile.

  • After some research, I learned from the state’s Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources that exposed sedimentary rock is the best place to look.

  • He kept encasing his answers in sedimentary layers of facts and assertions.

  • The foot plateau which succeeds is composed of sedimentary rocks dating from Trias to Jurassic.

  • The "erratics" comprised a great variety of metamorphic and igneous rocks, and, on a more limited scale, sedimentary types.

  • Here the material is redeposited in sedimentary strata, and this may emerge into the light in the ages yet to be.

  • At Vanmater's, the metalliferous clay marl is overlaid by a grayish sedimentary limestone.

  • An important class of rocks occurring in the Catoctin Belt is the sedimentary series.