1. Also known as sedimentary cycle. 2. A series of related processes and conditions appearing repeatedly in the same sequence in a sedimentary deposit. 3. The sediments deposited from the beginning of one cycle to the beginning of a second cycle of the spread of the sea over a land area, consisting of the original land sediments, followed by those deposited by shallow water, then deep water, and then the reverse process of the receding water. 4. See cyclothem.
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