lithification

The process of turning loose sediment into hard is called lithification.

The specimen is transformed to stone (a process called lithification) as water is lost.

As the sediments become more deeply buried lithification begins and sedimentary rock results.

During the process of lithification, sediments undergo physical, chemical and mineralogical changes before becoming rock.

The primary physical process in lithification is compaction.

This forms part of the process of lithification.

As the sediments are buried, they are subjected to increasing pressure and begin the process of lithification.

This process is known as lithification.

These laminae were deformed prior to the lithification of the sand to form sandstone.

Cementation occurs as part of the diagenesis or lithification of sediments.

As rocks are buried, they undergo lithification and the connate fluids are usually expelled.

Kurkar is a lithification product of windblown sands that created dunes during the Pleistocene.

Most dolostone formed as a magnesium replacement of limestone or lime mud prior to lithification.

Subsequent deposits above it, combined with the uplifting of the anticline, produced the heat and pressure which turned the mud into hard rock (Lithification).

Slump: typically monoclinal, result of differential compaction or dissolution during sedimentation and lithification.

Lithification of the sediments formed protective nodules of ironstone around the now fossilized remains.

Diagenetic processes can transform these sediments into rock through cementation and lithification, forming sedimentary rocks such as sandstone.

This information may illuminate geologic processes, such as crystallization, lithification, volcanism, metamorphism, orogenic events (mountain building), plate tectonics.

These are quartz sandstones, whose quartz grains have intermeshed crystal systems as a result of lithification (diagenesis) at their contact zones.

Eolianite or aeolianite is any rock formed by the lithification of sediment deposited by aeolian processes; that is, the wind.

The first phase of caymanite formation occurred after deposition, lithification, and karst process of the Oligocene Cayman Member.

All erosion types took advantage of preexisting weaknesses in the rock such as rock type, amount of lithification, and the presence of cracks or joints in the rock.

Prior to lithification, the mud deposits had been frequently exposed subaerially and desiccated, as evidenced by the numerous mudcracks, while evaporites (mostly, gypsum) were deposited in isolated pools.

Compactions - process by which a newly deposited sediment progressively loses its original water content due to the effects of loading, this forms part of the process of lithification.

It is any chemical, physical, or biological change undergone by a sediment after its initial deposition and during and after its lithification, exclusive of surface alteration (weathering) and metamorphism.