Cementation

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Cementation is a process where minerals bond grains of sediment together by growing around them. This means precipitation of ions carried in groundwater to form new crystalline material between sedimentary grains.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Cementation (geology)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Photograph taken by Mark A. Wilson (Department of Geology, The College of Wooster)., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.