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Study the place of sedimentary rock in the rock cycle and how geologists classify such geologic formations

marine evaporite deposition

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Also Known As	deposition

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marine evaporite deposition

Study the place of sedimentary rock in the rock cycle and how geologists classify such geologic formations

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hydraulic equivalence alluvium accretion deposit char zone of deposition settling velocity equation khabari settling sediment flood cementation lithification diagenesis compaction sedimentary rock marine sediment terrigenous sediment authigenic sediment clay

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William Henry Twenhofel

American geologist