sedimentary
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Shale is, after all, the most common sedimentary rock and found all over the world.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026
Imprinted in sediments or sedimentary rock, they record a specific moment of activity and confirm the exact location where an individual stood or moved.
From Science Daily • Nov. 13, 2025
They noticed there was a clear sedimentary change from pre-earthquake lagoon silt to post-earthquake rooted soil.
From Science Daily • May 20, 2024
At the top there is, like frosting on a cake, shale mud, Altamira Shale, the sedimentary legacy of those seabed millennia.
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2024
“Your noble experiment in sedimentary cuisine,” he said.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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