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.
我们空气中大多数的氧气都是从那些深埋于沉积岩层中的植物的残骸，或者吃这些植物的动物的残骸释放的。
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头的列表，则该列表将包含以下三项：熔灰岩、沉积岩和变质岩。
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。

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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The wall-rocks had single origin,indicating the stable sedimentary environment.
围岩具有单一的源,反映较稳定的沉积环境。
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