depositional
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depositional
Of, pertaining to, or in the nature of a deposit or a deposition.
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In the laboratory, biostratigraphers analyze rock samples from outcrop and drill cores for the fossils found in them. citation These fossils help scientists to date the core and to understand the depositional environment in which the rock units formed.
Oil shales vary considerably in their mineral content, chemical composition, age, type of kerogen, and depositional history and not all oil shales would necessarily be classified as shales in the strict sense.
It is helpful to have a petrographic microscope when using the Folk scheme, because it is easier to determine the components present in each sample. citation Dunham classification main The Dunham scheme focuses on depositional textures.
Robert J. Dunham published his system for limestone in 1962; it focuses on the depositional fabric of carbonate rocks.
The San Luis Valley is an extensive high-altitude depositional basin in the U.S. state of Colorado with a small portion overlapping into New Mexico covering approximately convert and sitting at an average elevation of convert above sea level.
The nature of a sedimentary rock, therefore, not only depends on the sediment supply, but also on the sedimentary depositional environment in which it formed.