sedimentaryin a sentence
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This sedimentary rock was formed from a few millimeters of sediment that accumulated on the ocean floor each year.
sedimentary = rock which has been created from layers of sediment laying on top of one another
- For another thing, he didn't have any idea how to "name three sedimentary strata you observe" or "describe two examples of erosion."† (source)
- Driving through the neighborhoods of Colorado Springs often seems like passing through layers of sedimentary rock, each one providing a snapshot of a different historical era.† (source)
- Igneous, sedimentary and something else.† (source)
- "Nothing, nothing," Joe said, and he hurried outside into the sedimentary heat of the settling day.† (source)
- Sedimentary rocks can explode in a fire.† (source)
- Mom… Now her voice changes, hardens, sedimentary stone.† (source)
- She set down a bowl of tortilla chips and a casserole dish filled with elaborate dip in multicolored strata, like sedimentary rock.† (source)
- I did my study assignments every night and pounded the floor and pounded the boards in the old gym, good riddance to bad beginnings, blood beginnings, and I was ready for this, hammering hard surfaces on some country road in the julepy haze of a midsummer day, feeling the dead soul slowly drain out of me, the sedimentary stuff of who I was, gone in the dancing air of insects and pollen.† (source)
- We were therefore walking upon sedimentary soil, the deposits of the waters of former ages.† (source)
- Probably there were subsidences of the outer crust, when a portion of the sedimentary deposits was carried down sudden openings.† (source)