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Diagenesis

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A freshly deposited sand is obviously different from an ancient sandstone in strength, coherence, porosity, composition, and texture. Diagenesis includes the many post-depositional processes that alter a sediment to a rock, a sand to a sandstone. The term diagenesis was coined in 1888 by von Gümbel (p. 334) and has been used in many senses since then. A complete review of the subject, its history, and its terminology has been given by Dunoyer de Segonzac (1968). We use the term diagenesis to include all those processes, chemical and physical, which affect the sediment after deposition and up to the lowest grade of metamorphism, the green-schist facies. Authigenic or authigenesis refers to specific minerals and their formation. Authigenic is to some extent synonymous with diagenetic.

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