Preferred Label : geologic sediments;
MeSH definition : A mass of organic or inorganic solid fragmented material, or the solid fragment itself,
that comes from the weathering of rock and is carried by, suspended in, or dropped
by air, water, or ice. It refers also to a mass that is accumulated by any other natural
agent and that forms in layers on the earth's surface, such as sand, gravel, silt,
mud, fill, or loess. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th
ed, p1689);
MeSH synonym : sediment, geologic; sediments, geologic; geologic sediment;
MeSH hyponym : sediments, marine; Marine Sediment; Marine Sediments; Sediment, Marine; Marine OIl Snow; Marine Snow; Marine Oil Snows; Oil Snow, Marine; Snow, Marine Oil;
MeSH annotation : DF: GEOL SEDIMENTS;
Origin ID : D019015;
UMLS CUI : C0282590;
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A mass of organic or inorganic solid fragmented material, or the solid fragment itself,
that comes from the weathering of rock and is carried by, suspended in, or dropped
by air, water, or ice. It refers also to a mass that is accumulated by any other natural
agent and that forms in layers on the earth's surface, such as sand, gravel, silt,
mud, fill, or loess. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th
ed, p1689)
