sedimentary rock

基本解释

It resembled sedimentary rock with the occasional fossil of a long-lost feature or inadvertent vulnerability.
它看起来就像是沉积岩，夹杂着灭绝生物的化石和不为人所知的弱点。
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At a now-famous seaside outcrop on the eastern coast of Scotland, he saw nearly horizontal layers of red sandstone on top of completely vertical layers of a much different, gray sedimentary rock.
在现在著名的苏格兰东部海岸的海滨露岩上，他看到近乎水平的红色砂岩层位于与它非常不同的灰色沉积岩层的上面。
Over time, nature forced them together so tightly they formed a sedimentary rock known as diatomite, which is actually not the thing that we thought it was when we first heard the word.
于是随着时间的推移，自然环境使他们不得不紧紧地团结一致，形成一种沉积性的硬石以保护自己，也就是众所周知的硅藻土了然而，当我们一听到“硅藻土”的时候，它与我们想象的那样大相径庭。

Under pressure, these hydrocarbons squeezed through grainy, porous sedimentary rock until blocked by nonporous rock, known as capstone.
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Neptunists believed all rock was sedimentary, created through the agency of water.
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Potash is a soft rock, which is extracted from sedimentary sea beds formed by evaporation of ancient seas, which is mined via conventional shaft mining like gold and silver.
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沉积岩
Oil sand, which can be called tar sand, is a sedimentary rock containing bitumen (solid or semi-solid phase) or other heavy oil, sand, water, mineral matter and clays.
油砂又称沥青砂,是一种含有沥青(固态或半固态烃类)或其他重质石油的沉积岩。其成分包括沥青(重油)、砂、水、矿物质和土。
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