sedimentary deposits in a sentence

Examples

1. The Smoky Hills were formed by sedimentary deposits during the Cretaceous period and consist of chalk, limestone, and sandstone rock outcroppings.
2. The rocks of the Caliente range are dominated by marine and terrestrial sedimentary deposits laid down over the last 30 million years.
3. Here and there the map shows beds of volcaniclastic sandstone or breccia, sedimentary deposits formed from the erosion of the volcanic rocks.
4. Poorly recovered and preserved sedimentary deposits indicated a shallow-reef bed typical of terraced flanking reefs and banks, as well as volcanic sand.
5. Twenty-six lithic artifacts were uncovered in the same loess sedimentary deposit as the cranium from the Gongwangling site in Lantian County, China.
6. The land mostly consists of volcanic rock with small valleys and canyons that contain sedimentary deposits; however, there is no longer volcanic activity.
7. Elsewhere, salt is extracted from the vast sedimentary deposits which have been laid down over the millennia from the evaporation of seas and lakes.
8. Neptunists differed from the plutonists in holding that basalt was a sedimentary deposit which included fossils and so could not be of volcanic origin.
9. For such a record to develop would require the area to have been receiving sedimentary deposits continually ever since the origin of the earth.
10. Possibly an old impact crater, the feature appears to have been filled in first by lava deposits, then by sedimentary deposits from mud flows.