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adjectivebasinal (not comparable)
- not comparableof or relating to a basin
The transition from freshwater basinal sedimentation to marine deposition was determined by analysis of diatoms from core samples.
1997 July 4, Heiner Josenhans et al., “Early Humans and Rapidly Changing Holocene Sea Levels in the Queen Charlotte Islands-Hecate Strait, British Columbia, Canada”, in Science, volume 277, number 5322, →DOI, pages 71–741 more example
The process may be relevant to the early stages of formation of the large sediment-hosted deposits from brines, exhalative fluids, or basinal fluids, and to formation of other low-temperature ZnS deposits.
2000 December 1, Matthias Labrenz et al., “Formation of Sphalerite (ZnS) Deposits in Natural Biofilms of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria”, in Science, volume 290, number 5497, →DOI, pages 1744–1747
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