Environment
Environment where fine mud settles at the bottom.
What is a lake?
Sea-level rise is called this.
What is transgression?
Sea-level fall is called this.
What is regression?
During transgression, sediment moves this direction.
What is toward land?
During regression, sediment moves this direction.
What is away from land?
Physical and chemical alterations, including compaction and cementation, that occur as sediment is transformed into rock.
What is diagenesis?