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What are ocean sediments?
Ocean sediments are deposits of materials(organic or in-organic) at the substractum of the ocean.
What are the three types of the ocean floor sediments?
The three types of ocean floor sediments are Terrigenous, Biogenous, and Hydrogenous sediments.
How do hydrogenous sediments form?
Along which coast is Thorium found in abundance?
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
Why are diatom shells found in ocean-floor sediments?
diatom shells settle on the ocean floor from the surface
The ultimate source of most of the material found on the surface of abyssal plains is?
sediments carried to the ocean by continental rivers
Where do Sediments tend to build up in the ocean?
Sediments build up in the Abyssal plain.
Sediments form a where the river meets the ocean?
The sediments are called silt or alluvium. The land formed from these sedimants where the river meets the ocean is a delta.
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.
How do icebergs contribute to ocean-basin sediments?
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When a river meets an ocean why do sediments drop out?
It will drop because there is no longer a current to carry the sediments.
