cementation
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According to Jean-Paul Raynal, who co-directed the program during the key excavation period, repeated changes in sea level, wind-driven sedimentation, and rapid cementation of coastal sands created ideal conditions for preserving fossils and archaeological evidence.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 7, 2026
The processes of cementation, compaction, and ultimately lithification occur within the realm of diagenesis, which includes the processes that turn organic material into fossils.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
These processes of compaction and cementation are called lithification.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
These iron oxides coat and bind mineral grains together into sedimentary rocks in a process called cementation and often give these rocks a dominant color.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
After cementation the plate is heated to a certain temperature and is then plunged into an oil bath in order to toughen it.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various
