Sentences with cementation
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C c - Trace fossils are concentrated towards the base of the member, where preferential cementation of the bioturbation has resulted in prominent erosion-resistant horizons.
- Rocks in intermediate-burial settings experience chemical compaction as well as subsurface cementation and dissolution.
- By the 1st century BC brass coins were being minted using a method akin to the cementation process - a means of producing brass from copper and zinc ore in a crucible.
- Quartz cementation of siliciclastic successions can develop at moderate burial depths and continue with increasing depth and temperature.
- They can also be deformed by the uneven action of cementation or other chemical reactions, and modified by the activity of organisms moving over or on them, producing trace fossils.