Bilingual glossary of geology

Chemical (Sedimentary Rock) Chimique (roche sédimentaire)

Rock constituted of sediment precipitated inorganically from solution (e.g.: rock salt). Usually form near their place of deposition.

Themes:
  Sedimentary rocks

Related words:
  Biochemical (Sedimentary Rock)
  Clastic (syn.: Detrital) (Sedimentary Rock)