Usually means: Setting where sediment accumulates, solidifies.
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Definitions from Wikipedia (Depositional environment)

noun:  In geology, depositional environment or sedimentary environment describes the combination of physical, chemical, and biological processes associated with the deposition of a particular type of sediment and, therefore, the rock types that will be formed after lithification, if the sediment is preserved in the rock record.


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