What is "depositional"

Usage examples of "depositional".

First, since the particle size of the grains in a mudstone is very small, the depositional environment in which the mudstone was formed had to have been still water, otherwise the tiny particles would have kept right on going.

We know that only some kinds of depositional environments can come before other kinds.

You find dinosaur bones in depositional environments that have eroded—not, for the most part, in environments that were erosional in the first place.

I see what looks like bare bedrock, and sedimentary stuff that's been scoured out, and depositional material.

A graceful red streak of depositional laminae ran over the horizon like a longitude line.

A graceful red streak of depositional laminae ran over the horizon like a longitude line.