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
The grain size, sorting, compaction, and degree of cementation of the rocks all influence primary porosity.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
In order to realize the vast work in solution and cementation which underground waters are now doing and have done in all geological ages, we must gain some conception of their amount.
From The Elements of Geology by Norton, William Harmon
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