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    Pelagic sediment or pelagite is a fine-grained sediment that accumulates as the result of the settling of particles to the floor of the open ocean, far...
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    enough silica or carbonate sediment to dominate over clay. Carbonate sediments are derived from a wide range of near-surface pelagic organisms that make their...
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  • The pelagic zone consists of the water column of the open ocean and can be further divided into regions by depth. The word pelagic is derived from Ancient...
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  • Pelagic red clay, also known as simply red clay, brown clay or pelagic clay, is a type of pelagic sediment. Pelagic clay accumulates in the deepest and...
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    Sedimentation (redirect from Sedimenting)
    (0.12 in) for pelagic sediment to several meters per year in portions of major river deltas. However, long-term accumulation of sediments is determined...
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    Sediment is a naturally occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of...
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    centimetres (5.9–15.7 in) every millennium, much faster than deep-sea pelagic sediments. "Shelf seas" are the ocean waters on the continental shelf. Their...
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    used in analysing sediments and soil including soil organic matter and soil amendments such as compost. In the analysis of sediments, C/N ratios are a...
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    settle in place. The particles that form a sedimentary rock are called sediment, and may be composed of geological detritus (minerals) or biological detritus...
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    Sediment transport is the movement of solid particles (sediment), typically due to a combination of gravity acting on the sediment, and the movement of...
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    Pelagic fish live in the pelagic zone of ocean or lake waters—being neither close to the bottom nor near the shore—in contrast with demersal fish that...
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    a type of biogenic pelagic sediment located on the deep ocean floor. Siliceous oozes are the least common of the deep sea sediments, and make up approximately...
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    a type of biogenic pelagic sediment located on the deep ocean floor. Siliceous oozes are the least common of the deep sea sediments, and make up approximately...
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  • Hemipelagic sediments are deposited on continental shelves and continental rises, and differ from pelagic sediment compositionally. Pelagic sediment is composed...
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    stability of a geochemically active layer that forms at the seabed. Pelagic sediment type and seabed bathymetry (or geomorphology) likely influence the...
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  • variability. Pelagic sediments Biogenous Ooze Pinet 1996, p. 79. Pinet 1996, pp. 79–83. Earle, Steven (23 September 2019). "18.3 Sea-Floor Sediments". Archived...
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    submarine canyons into deeper water. The rest is composed chiefly of pelagic sediments. Metallic nodules are common in some areas of the plains, with varying...
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    Amorphous volcanic glass Rock flour – Glacier-generated sediment Siliceous ooze – Biogenic pelagic sediment located on the deep ocean floor Zeolite – Microporous...
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  • Ocean thermal energy conversion Oceanography Outline of oceanography Pelagic sediment Sea surface microlayer Sea surface temperature Seawater Science On...
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    fertilization, artificial upwelling, basalt storage, mineralization and deep sea sediments, adding bases to neutralize acids. However, none have achieved large scale...
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    hours of aggregate attachment. The dark ocean harbors around 65% of all pelagic Bacteria and Archaea.(Whitman et al., 1998) It was previously thought that...
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    of pelagic sediments Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 13 (1958), pp. 153-212 Dymond, Jack; Suess, Erwin; Lyle, Mitch (1992). "Barium in Deep-Sea Sediment: A...
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  • in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ooze may refer to: Pelagic sediments, fine-grained sediments on the ocean floor, containing at least 30% biogenous...
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  • animals are not preserved. Carbonate particles cannot accumulate in the sediments where the sea floor is below this depth. Calcite is the least soluble...
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    sequences with pelagic sediments, distinct fauna changes between the turbidite and native pelagic sediments, sole markings, thick sediment sequences, regular...
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    used as one factor in evaluating a petroleum play. For marine surface sediments average TOC content is 0.5% in the deep ocean, and 2% along the eastern...
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    The benthic and pelagic zones are interconnected through nutrient (nitrogen, phosphorus, and silicate) exchange from the sediment that help fuel phytoplankton...
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