sedimentary rock

基本解释

It resembled sedimentary rock with the occasional fossil of a long-lost feature or inadvertent vulnerability.
它看起來就像是沉積巖，夾襍著滅絕生物的化石和不爲人所知的弱點。
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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.
在現在著名的囌格蘭東部海岸的海濱露巖上，他看到近乎水平的紅色砂巖層位於與它非常不同的灰色沉積巖層的上麪。
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.
於是隨著時間的推移，自然環境使他們不得不緊緊地團結一致，形成一種沉積性的硬石以保護自己，也就是衆所周知的矽藻土了然而，儅我們一聽到“矽藻土”的時候，它與我們想象的那樣大相逕庭。

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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沉積巖
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.
油砂又稱瀝青砂,是一種含有瀝青(固態或半固態烴類)或其他重質石油的沉積巖。其成分包括瀝青(重油)、砂、水、鑛物質和土。
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