biosedimentary

English

Alternative forms

• bio-sedimentary

Adjective

biosedimentary (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to biosedimentation.
   • 1969, National Science Foundation, Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project:

     It is worth emphasizing that the vertical succession of facies, in spite of the break introduced by the dolomitic Unit B (Borkowski and Mazzullo, this vol.), strictly reproduces the biosedimentary order ranging from littoral to open sea, from very shallow environments to bathyal depths.

   • 1995, Anastasios Eleftheriou, Christopher Smith, Alan D. Ansell, Biology and Ecology of Shallow Coastal Waters, →ISBN:

     Both habitats are broadly similar in terms of their biosedimentary conditions.