Example sentences for: sedimentary

How can you use “sedimentary” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Future missions to Mars might find microfossils in sedimentary rocks such as those at Meridiani Planum.

  • The association and interaction between benthic fauna and sedimentary microorganisms is a very interesting field of study, although inevitably still very speculative.

  • Vestimentiferan tubeworms living at cold hydrocarbon seeps, i.e., the lamellibrachids and escarpids, are adapted to a sedimentary environment, with a substantial part of the body and tube of many species extending into the mud.

  • Waves of sedimentary rock lifted by vast thrust faults less than 60 million years ago have created a variety of striking silhouettes: the battlements of a medieval fortress, sawteeth, or single pyramids like the Swiss Matterhorn.


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