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What are the sediments that are found on the ridge of the ocean floor called?
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What are the three types of the ocean floor sediments?
The three types of ocean floor sediments are Terrigenous, Biogenous, and Hydrogenous sediments.
Why are diatom shells found in ocean-floor sediments?
diatom shells settle on the ocean floor from the surface
What are the three types of ocean sediments?
The three types of ocean floor sediments are Terrigenous, Biogenous, and Hydrogenous sediments.
How are ocean-floor rocks and sediments evidence of seafloor spreading?
because that there are younger rocks found at ocean ridges than the ones found near deep-sea trenches
What are four features of the ocean?
turbidity currents deposit sediments on the ocean floor
Does the thickness of ocean floor sediments decrease with distance from an ocean ridge?
yes
How are ocean floor sediments classified by physical compositions?
Meow
How are neritic sediments different form pelagic sediments?
neritic is near shore an covers about 1/4 of the ocean floor and pelagic is deep ocean basin and covers the other 3/4 of the ocean floor
What is the relationship between the distance from a river delta into the ocean and the size of sediments deposited on the ocean floor?
The further from the delta, the finer the sediments deposited.
The three types of ocean floor sediments are classified according to their?
Origin
Which are three types of ocean floor sediments?
terrigeneous, biogeneous, and hydrogeneous
What were found on the ocean floor?
blank are found on the ocean floor
