Centuries of flooding and evaporation created enormous deposits of sedimentary rock.
And my books flatten under each others' weight, like layers of sedimentary rock.
Made up of sedimentary rock and fringed by coral reefs, the island has flatlands of narrow floodplains and deltas.
Their scars have accumulated like layers of sedimentary rock, each marking a different crisis — homelessness, occupation, war, dependency.
Shale, a fine-grained type of sedimentary rock, underlies much of the nation, according to Mr. Small, a geologist.
The West's notion of progress inherently presumes that society is always building upon the past, like layers of sedimentary rock.
A global drop in sea level is suggested by extensive unconformities (interruptions in the deposition of sedimentary rock).
Knowing this and the types of sedimentary rock formations that commonly include coal, geologists can quite readily locate coal-bearing areas.
The stronger layers of sedimentary rock are then folded into linear, regularly spaced folds alternating anticlines and synclines and thrust on top of one another.
