Concept information
Preferred term
Geologic Sediments
Type
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Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
Entry terms
- Geologic Sediment
- Sediment, Geologic
- Sediments, Geologic
Scope note
- A mass of organic or inorganic solid fragmented material, or the solid fragment itself, that comes from the weathering of rock and is carried by, suspended in, or dropped by air, water, or ice. It refers also to a mass that is accumulated by any other natural agent and that forms in layers on the earth's surface, such as sand, gravel, silt, mud, fill, or loess. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed, p1689)
History note
- 96
In other languages
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Finnish
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geologinen kerrostuma
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geologinen sedimentti
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geologiset sedimentit
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Swedish
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D019015
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