sedimentary

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Most of the oxygen in our air came from plants whose remains - or those of the animals that fed on them - became entombed in sedimentary rocks.
我們空氣中大多數(shù)的氧氣都是從那些深埋于沉積巖層中的植物的殘骸，或者吃這些植物的動物的殘骸釋放的。
If you were presenting a list of all forms of rock found on earth, it would contain the following three items: igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic.
如果要表示地球上存在的所有形式的石頭的列表，則該列表將包含以下三項：熔灰?guī)r、沉積巖和變質(zhì)巖。
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(xiàn)在著名的蘇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于與它非常不同的灰色沉積巖層的上面。

Shales are fine-grained sedimentary rocks that can be rich sources of petroleum and natural gas.
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She was a one-fish Hoover, motoring through the food-packed sludge and through rich layers of sedimentary smells.
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Under pressure, these hydrocarbons squeezed through grainy, porous sedimentary rock until blocked by nonporous rock, known as capstone.
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沉積
The wall-rocks had single origin,indicating the stable sedimentary environment.
圍巖具有單一的源,反映較穩(wěn)定的沉積環(huán)境。
沈積的
沉積的