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What is the adjective for sediments?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb sediment which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

sedimented
  1. (geology, of a strata) Deposited from sediment
  2. (of a water course) Having much sediment
sedimentary
  1. (geology, of a rock) Made by the deposition and compression of small particles.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. deposited, grainy, muddy, sandy, silty, alluvial, fluvial
sedimentological
  1. Of, pertaining to, or caused by sedimentology
  2. Examples:
      3. “There is strong sedimentological evidence that the evaporites were precipitated in sabkhas or desert salt lakes.”
      “Many modern basal angiosperms grow on erosional substrates that are unlikely to be preserved in the sedimentological record.”
      “Although based on considerable sedimentological and paleobotanical evidence, contradictory results have been obtained.”
sedimentologic
  1. Synonym of sedimentological
  2. Examples:
      3. “These interpretations fit with sedimentologic, paleoecologic, taphonomic and ichnologic evidence for depth-related paleoenvironmental parameters.”
      “A stratigraphic and sedimentologic analysis of some Lower and Middle Silurian clastic rocks of the north-central Appalachians.”
      “Regional sedimentologic and geomorphic features of the south-east district demonstrate sediment input to this area from the Murray River.”
sedimentous
  1. Of or relating to sediment.
sedimental
  1. sedimentary
  2. Examples:
      3. “Many animals also burrow to avoid predation and to live in the more stable sedimental environment.”
      “However deafening, this noise enables me to reactivate sedimental memories of the communal environment I am writing about.”
      “This would release soluble protein leaving only membrane and nonvascular matter in a sedimental form.”
sedimenting
  1. present participle of sediment
  2. Synonyms:
      3. laying, settling, sinking, subsiding, falling, gravitating, submerging, submersing, plunging, precipitating out, going to the bottom, dropping, descending, slumping, collapsing, tumbling, plummetting, plummeting, sagging, going down, diving, crashing, nosediving, lowering, cratering, coming down, pitching, dipping, crumpling, falling down, crumbling, flopping, dropping down, stumbling, buckling, toppling, cascading, drooping, declining, caving in, foundering, skidding, setting, giving, slouching, going, breaking, flumping, yielding, lolling … more
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