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What is the relationship between sea floor sediment thickness and mid-ocean ridge distance?
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The further away a point is from the mid-ocean ridge, the deeper the sediment layer should be. Because the ocean floor is relatively new nearer the ridge, sediments have had less time to accumulate.
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Do Ocean sediments become younger or older away from midocean ridges?
Older, as it moves away from the mid-ocean ridge the sediment gets thicker and older
What is the relationship of silt in water?
Sediment composition.
Where is the greatest sediment thickness on the ocean floor?
Near the trenches, or in the seafloor furthest away from spreading centers.
How does the age of seafloor sediments change with increasing distance from the ocean ridge?
Age of seafloor rock and sediment increases with distance from the oceanic ridges.
What will happen to the thickness of a bed of sediment when it is compacted and why?
As fluids and spaces between particles are squeezed out by the weight of overlying sediments, the particles become closer to each other, thus flattening the thickness of the strata.
What did harry hess propose?
Harry Hess proposed an explanation that tied together data on the age of ocean rocks, sediment thickness, and magnetic striping.
A layer of sedimentary rock is 2 meters thick how many years did it take for this layer to form if an average of 4 millimeters of sediment accumulated per year?
It is impossible to derive an answer from the information provided. At first glance it would appear that the answer would be 500 years; in actuality, the sediments that created the sedimentary rock would have been substantially compressed during the lithification process, resulting in a rock thickness that was less than the initial sediment thickness, depending on the type of sediment.
How does one clastic detrital sedimentary rock have a texture and composition different than another?
The difference would lie in the origin of the sediment and largely on the distance the sediment traveled.
What does roundness tell us about sediment grains?
it tells us about the transportation of sediments before deposition. i.e if a sediment has travelled a longer distance, it'll be rounder. therefore the longer the transportation takes, the well-rounded it becomes
What is cross-cutting relationship?
A crosscutting feature occurs when a rock or body of sediment cuts across, through fractures, faults, or magma. Any feature that cuts across must be younger than the rock or sediment that it cuts across.
What is the relationship between velocity sediment size and river size?
As the steam velocity increases, the diameter of the sediments being transported increases.
Was ist ein Sediment?
Was ist ein Sediment = what is a sediment
