Sedimentation: alternatives and connections

An instrument for boring or perforating soils or rocks, for determining the quality of soils, or the nature of the rocks or strata upo…

A compartment in a barn, for depositing hay, or grain in the stalks.

(geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock); "they found a bed of sandstone"

A cistern in the course, or the termination, of a drain, to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter; a privy vault; any receptacle o…

A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.

Consisting of a series of parallel cones, each made up of many concentric cones closely packed together; -- said of a kind of structur…

The act of depositing; deposition.

Of secondary origin; -- said of certain rocks whose material has been derived from older rocks.

Effected or produced by a flood or deluge of water; -- said of coarse and imperfectly stratified deposits along ancient or existing wa…

A style of engraving in relief by means of voltaic electricity. A picture is drawn on a metallic plate with some material which resist…

Animal jelly; glutinous material obtained from animal tissues by prolonged boiling. Specifically (Physiol. Chem.), a nitrogeneous coll…

Formed or crystallized at depths the earth's surface; -- said of granite, gneiss, and other rocks, whose crystallization is believed o…

To insert among others, as a verse in a stanza; specif. (Geol.), to introduce as a bed or stratum, between the layers of a regular ser…

The insertion or introduction of anything among others, as the insertion of a phrase, line, or verse in a metrical composition; specif…

A mass of igneous rock intruded between sedimentary beds and resulting in a mammiform bulging of the overlying strata.

A coloring produced by the deposition of some metallic compound; specifically, the prismatic tints produced by depositing a film of pe…

Pertaining to, produced by, or exhibiting, certain changes which minerals or rocks may have undergone since their original deposition;…

The state or quality of being metamorphic; the process by which the material of rock masses has been more or less recrystallized by he…