Body of rock identified by lithic characteristics and stratigraphic position; it is usually but not necessarily tabular and is mappable at the Earth's surface or traceable in the subsurface.
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Examples for "formation "
1 Some warn this time the government formation process could take a year.
2 His comments followed the formation of a Palestinian unity government last month.
3 However, the underlying intracellular mechanisms leading to product aggregate formation remain unknown.
4 The result is the necessary factor in the formation of the Dweller.
5 The report appears sceptical of current policy formation in the education sector.
1 The specimens refer only to the geological formation of the distant interior.
2 The nature of the soil may be inferred from its geological formation .
3 At the end of the fourth day the geological formation changed.
4 The geological formation of the region I must leave to others.
5 Fortunately the geological formation is principally sedimentary limestone, which offers no great resistance.
1 The cabin showed every mark of the owner's interest in the geologic formation of that immediate district.
2 The beds are of great thickness, belonging to two distinct geologic formations .
3 The professor secured the map of the geologic formations of our continent, and traced it.
4 The geologic formations tell us of a time when no life could exist-longages of convulsion and change in the crust of the globe.
5 GeoSouthern Energy, based in The Woodlands, Texas, drills for oil and gas in the Austin Chalk and Eagle Ford geologic formations in South Texas.
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