Explore: Cementation (petrology)

minerals; other mineral cements also occur. Cementation is continuous in the groundwater zone, so much so that the term "zone of cementation" is sometimes used

from a publication now in the public domain: Flett, John Smith (1911). "Petrology". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 21 (11th ed.)

study of rocks involves multiple subdisciplines of geology, including petrology and mineralogy. It may be limited to rocks found on Earth, or it may include

Cementation can occur simultaneously with deposition or at another time. Furthermore, once a sediment is deposited, it becomes subject to cementation

Metamorphic petrology is the study of metamorphism. Metamorphic petrologists rely heavily on statistical mechanics and experimental petrology to understand

that the boulders consist of mud, fine silt and clay, cemented by calcite. The degree of cementation varies from being relatively weak in the interior of

described as tephra. Tephra may become lithified to a pyroclastic rock by cementation or chemical reactions as the result of the passage of hot gases (fumarolic

structure of rocks Sedimentary rock – Rock formed by the deposition and cementation of particles 15% is the arithmetic sum of the area for intrusive plutonic

compaction continues to depths of 2,000 meters (6,600 ft), and most cementation takes place at depths of 2,000–5,000 meters (6,600–16,400 ft). Unroofing

lithification is a process of porosity destruction through compaction and cementation. Lithification includes all the processes which convert unconsolidated