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Sediments consolidated

      The consolidated sediments are deposits which were formed by secondary sedimentation of previously weathered rocks and redeposition of their fragments, and/or by chemical and biochemical precipitation from solutions. Later, they have been consolidated during a diagenesis. During diagenesis following processes leading to consolidation are in operation: compaction, cementation, recrystallization, intrastratal solution, metasomatism, and authigenesis. The intensity of diagenesis depends mostly on the depth of burial, hydrostatic and oriented pressure of surrounded rocks, on temperature, solution activity and some additional factors. The transformation of sand into sandstone serves as one of examples of consolidation during diagenetic processes.


List of exhibits

travertin /překrytalizovaný/, jeden kus g10412
pěnovec - písčitý, jedna krabička g10421
pěnovec písčitý, jedna krabička g10422
pěnovce a rendziny, jedna krabička g10423
almy - zemité, jedna krabička g10424
almy, jedna krabička g10425
pěnovec, zemitý písčitý, jedna krabička g10426
pěnovec písčitý, jedna krabička g10427
pěnovec - křídový, jedna krabice g10429
křemenec, jeden kus g10236
pískovec kaolinický, jeden kus g10237
pískovec arkózový, jeden kus g10238
pískovec - kaolinický, jedna krabička g10239
pískovec glaukonitický jílovitý jemnozrnný, jeden kus g10240
dolomit buněčnatý, jeden kus g10250
travertin s otisky listů, jeden kus g10253
pěnovec - otisky trav s lymnaea peregra /müll/, dva kusy g10255
pěnovce - strukturní, čtyři kusy g10257
pěnovec - mechový, jeden kus g10258
pěnovec, jeden kus g10362


Virtual museum of the Czech Geological Survey, www.geology.cz, (C) Czech Geological Survey, 2011, v.0.99 [13.12.2011]