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depositional environment: In geology, a depositional environment refers to the specific surroundings or conditions in which sediments are deposited or accumulated. It encompasses factors such as water depth, energy, sediment type, and climate that influence the formation of sedimentary rocks

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This indicates a depositional environment of beach or mudflat.
The conglomerates and sandstones indicate a continental to fluvial depositional environment.
The first model is a depositional environment model.
The depositional environment was most likely shallow marine.
Major changes in depositional environment.
The depositional environment has been interpreted as shallow marine.
Sedimentological and palæontological data point to a shallow marine depositional environment.
At least the depositional environment is right as well as the general shape.
The setting in which a sedimentary rock forms is called the depositional environment.
The depositional environment of these rocks is postulated to be either shallow marine or terrestrial.
The typical rock formed in a certain depositional environment is called its sedimentary facies.
Selection of the optimum order depends on the geological knowledge of the depositional environment.
Geological context, depositional environment and age.
Ichnofacies are groups of trace fossils that together help give information on the depositional environment.
Sedimentation, depositional environment and accumulation of organic matter.

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It is also aimed to find out indications of depositional environment of Tuzla evaporites.
The depositional environment was probably coastal, deltaic or estuarine in character.
These Zachelmie tracks were originally attributed to a marine intertidal depositional environment.
The depositional environment has been interpreted as fluvio-glacial terraces.
All these are indicative of a deep-water depositional environment.
Pertaining to the depositional environment of the deepest area of the ocean basins, the abyss.
The sediments of the formation reflect a marine near-shore depositional environment.
During the Late Triassic the depositional environment became shallower again, and a carbonate platform developed.
Sediment forming the terraces is variable, depending upon ice-marginal depositional environment.
The depositional environment of the majority of Burgess-Shale-type assemblages is outer shelf, deeper water.
It is proposed that this sequence has a depositional environment of semi-isolated basin.
There are fossils of brachiopods, bivalves and bryozoans present, consistent with a shallow marine depositional environment.
Figure 13 - Montney depositional environment and distribution.

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