syndiagenetic
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From syn- + diagenetic.
Adjective
[edit]syndiagenetic (not comparable)
- (geology) Happening at the same time as diagenesis ("the changes sediment goes through during and after lithification").
- 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:
- 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 tectonically caused folds.