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Lithification (from the
Ancient Gr**** word
lithos meaning 'rock' and the Latin-derived
suffix -ific) is the
process in
which sediments compact under pressure...
- (authigenic) minerals. As a result,
lithification of
volcanic ash is one of the
fastest low-temperature
lithification processes.
Alteration of volcanic...
- and it
undergoes diagenesis. This
mostly consists of
compaction and
lithification of the sand.
Early stages of diagenesis,
described as eogenesis, take...
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begin to
undergo diagenesis. This
mostly consists of
compaction and
lithification of the clay and silt particles.
Early stages of diagenesis, described...
- such
eruptions rapidly alters to
palagonite as part of the
process of
lithification.
Although conventional mafic volcanism produce little ash, such ash...
- from
initial erosion through sediment transport and
settling to the
lithification of the sediments. However, the
strict geological definition of sedimentation...
- be
formed from the
lithification of
these buried smaller fragments (clastic
sedimentary rock), the ac****ulation and
lithification of
material generated...
- with silica. The
specimen is
transformed to
stone (a
process called lithification) as
water is lost. For
silicification to occur, the
geothermic conditions...
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loose sediment into hard
sedimentary rocks is
called lithification.
During the
process of
lithification,
sediments undergo physical,
chemical and mineralogical...
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eventually become sandstone and
siltstone (sedimentary rocks)
through lithification.
Sediments are most
often transported by
water (fluvial processes),...
