Meanings of sedimentary layers in English

I imagined they were turning into fossil fuel in the sedimentary layers below.

Today those shores are sedimentary layers in the Austrian Alps.

Low, flat dwellings lay like sedimentary layers on the slope of a low ridge.

Mudflats, sedimentary layers, alluvial plains, glacial moraines, the Antarctic plateau... and of course, the ocean basins.

The grey, yellow and gold sedimentary layers of the excavated rock edged past as they rose.

So it was into the past, with its rich sedimentary layers, that my mind would go instead.

The sedimentary layers of the mesalike formations were gray and yellow and pink above the dusk gathering on the desert floor.

Beneath the Texas Gulf coast are about 500 salt domes formed when buoyant salts from saline beds five miles down rise through sedimentary layers.

But he was also a geologist, and knew that layers of fossils contained in varying sedimentary layers couldn't have been deposited by a single deluge.