Some of those processes cause the sediment to overburden ( lithostatic ) pressure rises, and a process known as lithification takes place.
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This information may illuminate geologic processes, such as crystallization, lithification, volcanism, metamorphism, orogenic events ( mountain building ), plate tectonics.
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All erosion types took advantage of preexisting weaknesses in the rock such as rock type, amount of lithification, and the presence of cracks or joints in the rock.
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They are tessellated pavements formed by jointing; tessellated pavements formed by cooling contraction; tessellations formed by mud cracking and lithification; and tessellated sandstone pavements of uncertain origin.
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The lack of fissility or layering in mudstone may be due either to the original texture or to the disruption of layering by burrowing organisms in the sediment prior to lithification.
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Geologists and paleontologists constructed the geologic table based on the relative positions of different strata and fossils, and estimated the time scales based on studying rates of various kinds of weathering, erosion, sedimentation, and lithification.
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In geology, "'depositional environment "'or "'sedimentary environment "'describes the combination of physical, chemical and biological processes associated with the deposition of a particular type of sediment and, therefore, the rock types that will be formed after lithification, if the sediment is preserved in the rock record.
