Formed or produced by downward-acting geological processes, or relating to the formation of minerals and rocks through subsidence and burial.
From Greek 'kata' (down) + 'genic' (producing). Related to catogene, this describes the process rather than the product.
Geologists use 'catogenic' to describe how heat and pressure from burial create new minerals and rocks—essentially the planet's recycling system where old rocks get remade into new ones.
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