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SEDIMENTARY ROCKS

Definition: SEDIMENTARY ROCKS

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS

1. (Geol.) See Aqueous rocks , under Aqueous .

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Specialty Definitions: SEDIMENTARY ROCKS

DomainDefinitions

Mining

Rocks formed by the accumulation of sediment in water (aqueous deposits) or from air (eolian deposits). The sediment may consist of rock fragments or particles of various sizes (conglomerate sandstone, shale); of the remains or products of animals or plants (certain limestones and coal); of the product of chemical action or of evaporation (salt, gypsum, etc.); or of mixtures of these materials. Some sedimentary deposits (tuffs) are composed of fragments blown from volcanoes and deposited on land or in water. A characteristic feature of sedimentary deposits is a layered structure known as bedding or stratification. Each layer is a bed or stratum. Sedimentary beds as deposited lie flat or nearly flat.See:stratified rocks. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: SEDIMENTARY ROCKS

English words defined with "SEDIMENTARY ROCKS": Cone-in-cone. (references)
Specialty definitions using "SEDIMENTARY ROCKS": allochthonbasement complex, bedded deposit, bedded rock, bedding plane, boudinagecatogene, chorismite, contact deposit, contact erosion valley, cross joint, crystalline rockdiagnostic mineral, Diatreme, distributive provinceexsolutionalgeochemical cycle, geosynclinejasperizationkerogenlagergestein, lithogenesis, lithographic texturemagnetic method, massive bedding, metadiabase, metadiorite, Metamorphic rocksoceanic rocks, onlappholidoidequartz rockregional unconformity, rhythmic sedimentation, rock cycle, rock matrix, rock sedimentsecondary deposit, secondary mineral deposit, sedimentary petrography, soft-rock geology, STRATIGRAPHER, stratigraphic sequence, stratigraphic sequence of beds, stripped plain, syngeneticTAR SANDSvolcanic arc. (references)

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Commercial Usage: SEDIMENTARY ROCKS

DomainTitle

Books

  • Atlas of Sedimentary Rocks Under the Microscope (reference)

  • Backscattered Scanning Electron Microscopy and Image Analysis of Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks (reference)

  • Encyclopedia of Sediments & Sedimentary Rocks (Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences,) (reference)

  • Sedimentary Petrology: An Introduction to the Origin of Sedimentary Rocks (reference)

  • Sedimentary Rocks in the Field (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Physical Geography: Sedimentary Rocks and their Formation (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: SEDIMENTARY ROCKS

Language Translations for "SEDIMENTARY ROCKS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

sedimentære bjergarter, aflejringsbjergarter. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

sedimentgesteenten, sedimentaire gesteenten, afzettingsgesteenten. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

sedimenttikivilaji (sedimentary rock), sedimenttikivi. (various references)

   

French

  

roches sédimentaires. (various references)

   

German

  

Sedimentgesteine, Absatzgesteine. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ιζηματογενή πετρώματα (sedimentary rock). (various references)

   

Italian

  

rocce sedimentarie. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

edimentarysay ocksray

   

Portuguese

  

rochas sedimentares (sedimentary rock). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

rocas sedimentarias (sedimentary rock). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

sedimentär bergart (sedimentary rock). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SEDIMENTARY ROCKS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-k-m-n-o-r-r-s-s-t-y"

-4 letters: desecrations, intercessory, intercrossed, recessionary, secretionary.

-5 letters: antismokers, comraderies, considerate, coresidents, craniometry, crematories, cysteamines, cytokineses, desecration, desecrators, determinacy, dockmasters, intercessor, ironmasters, misreckoned, monasteries, nematocides, noisemakers, radiometers, reassertion, reconsiders, recreations, secondaries, sedimentary, syncretised, syndicators.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SEDIMENTARY ROCKS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 45 44 49 4D 45 4E 54 41 52 59      52 4F 43 4B 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01000101 01000100 01001001 01001101 01000101 01001110 01010100 01000001 01010010 01011001 00100000 01010010 01001111 01000011 01001011 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#69 &#68 &#73 &#77 &#69 &#78 &#84 &#65 &#82 &#89 &#32 &#82 &#79 &#67 &#75 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0045 0044 0049 004D 0045 004E 0054 0041 0052 0059      0052 004F 0043 004B 0053

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

533938434739485435525925249374553

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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