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Deep ocean sediments tend to have proportionately ____________ biogenous sediment than continental shelf sediment

Siliceous deposits tend to dominate below the carbonate compensation depth because

the study of sediments has economic importance because scientists hope to find economically improtant materials there one day

What is black gold?

The rate of continental shelf sedimentation is generally ________ the rate of deep ocean sedimentation

Scientists are not exactly sure how ferromanganese and phosphotite nodules form, but they think a bilogicval process may be involved

Continental shelf sedimentation is strongly controlled by

Coarse particle deposits found on the continental shelf bottom thought to be left from when the sea level are called