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syndiagenetic

syndiagenetic adjective: happening at the same time as diagenesis ("the changes sediment goes through during and after lithification").

Adjective

syndiagenetic (not comparable)

  1. Happening at the same time as diagenesis ("the changes sediment goes through during and after lithification").
    • The succession of parallel surfaces with magnesite — mica — hematite was, therefore, transofrmed by two superimposed and symmetrologically at least partly distinguishable axial deformations: the systems of syndiagenetic, locally "external sedimentary" folds, probably in a void, and those of...1977, D. D. Klemm, H.J. Schneider, editors, Time- And Strata-Bound Ore Deposits, Berlin; Heidelberg; New York, N.Y.: Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, page 268

Origin of syndiagenetic

From syn- + diagenetic.

Questions about syndiagenetic

What does syndiagenetic mean?
Syndiagenetic means happening at the same time as diagenesis ("the changes sediment goes through during and after lithification").
What part of speech is syndiagenetic?
Syndiagenetic is an adjective.

Words near syndiagenetic in the dictionary

  1. syndetome
  2. syndetomes
  3. syndeton
  4. syndetons
  5. syndets
  6. syndiagenetic
  7. syndic
  8. syndical
  9. syndicalism
  10. syndicalisms
  11. syndicalist

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