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sedimentary
1. It was just kilometre after kilometre of reddish-brown dirt, and hundreds of the sedimentary rock formations
2. “I am a much older Z’va probe model, and for the past 65 million years, I was accidentally buried under layers of sedimentary rock on a distant planet, long before the Veiled came to this Galaxy
3. They found that the ships’ lasers would cut through the sedimentary rock
4. The mountain was relatively soft rock since it was sedimentary and not volcanic like some of the other mountains in the area
5. layer of sedimentary rock
6. Over time the surrounding softer sedimentary rock eroded, leaving the monolithic landmark towering over the current landscape
7. As Lyell has well remarked, the extent and thickness of our sedimentary formations are the result and the measure of the denudation which the earth's crust has elsewhere undergone
8. When thus impressed with the slow rate at which the land is worn away through subaerial and littoral action, it is good, in order to appreciate the past duration of time, to consider, on the one hand, the masses of rock which have been removed over many extensive areas, and on the other hand the thickness of our sedimentary formations
9. On the other hand, in all parts of the world the piles of sedimentary strata are of wonderful thickness
10. So that the lofty pile of sedimentary rocks in Britain gives but an inadequate idea of the time which has elapsed during their accumulation
11. Hopkins also expresses his belief that sedimentary beds of considerable horizontal extent have rarely been completely destroyed
12. In many regions the metamorphic and granite rocks would be found much more widely extended than they appear to be, if all the sedimentary beds were removed which rest unconformably on them, and which could not have formed part of the original mantle under which they were crystallised
13. Yet it may be doubted whether, in any quarter of the world, sedimentary deposits, INCLUDING FOSSIL REMAINS, have gone on accumulating within the same area during the whole of this period
14. Even throughout the extensive and shallow seas within the archipelago, sedimentary beds could hardly be accumulated of great thickness during the periods of elevation, or become capped and protected by subsequent deposits, so as to have a good chance of enduring to a very distant future
15. Nor should we be justified in assuming that if, for instance, the bed of the Pacific Ocean were now converted into a continent we should there find sedimentary formations, in recognisable condition, older than the Cambrian strata, supposing such to have been formerly deposited; for it might well happen that strata which had subsided some miles nearer to the centre of the earth, and which had been pressed on by an enormous weight of superincumbent water, might have undergone far more metamorphic action than strata which have always remained nearer to the surface
16. Sandstones, or, in masons’ language, “free-stones,” from the freedom with which most of them are worked when freshly taken from the quarry, are plastic or sedimentary rocks
17. —, —, —, causes of, and influence in producing the sedimentary rocks of the United States, W
18. Mather on causes of, in rise of sedimentary rocks of United States, xlix, 284
19. —, elevation of sedimentary rocks of United States, causes of, xlix, 284