Sedimentary rocks aren’t just stones under our feet—they’re Earth’s storytellers, recording ancient environments, climate shifts, and even the creatures that once lived here. Formed through processes ...

Carbonate is initially precipitated in the ocean as metastable calcite and/or aragonite, and is subsequently transformed into stable interlocking crystals of low-Mg calcite and/or dolomite. In this ...

Nom féminin géol. (anglais : lithification) Processus de transformation d'un sédiment meuble en roche consolidée par compaction et cimentation. Syn. Diagénèse ou lapidification. Comprendre le ...