ch 12 Multiple Choice Test

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

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

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

Siliceous deposits tend to dominate below the carbonate compensation depth because

Deep Ocean sediments tend to have the same particle composition as the surface water above it because

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

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

scientists have found economically important materials in the ocean's sediment

What is black gold?

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