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  • Thumbnail for Marine sediment
    Marine sediment, or ocean sediment, or seafloor sediment, are deposits of insoluble particles that have accumulated on the seafloor. These particles either...
    109 KB (12,371 words) - 03:21, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pelagic sediment
    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 from...
    9 KB (919 words) - 20:09, 1 March 2023
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    transport and deposition, though sediment also often settles out of slow-moving or standing water in lakes and oceans. Desert sand dunes and loess are...
    22 KB (2,818 words) - 01:47, 17 March 2024
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    Seabed (redirect from Ocean floor)
    the world's oceans is covered in layers of marine sediments. Categorized by where the materials come from or composition, these sediments are classified...
    26 KB (4,323 words) - 23:53, 19 April 2024
  • when examining lake sediments. Moraine belts are usually studied in places with palaeoglacier presented. As for ocean sediments, the variations of alkenone...
    26 KB (3,170 words) - 20:33, 13 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Roman Warm Period
    Warm Periods. A 1999 reconstruction of ocean current patterns, based on the granularity of deep ocean sediment, concluded that there was a Roman Warm...
    16 KB (1,425 words) - 23:19, 1 June 2024
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    bottom substratum of a water body, especially within the bottom-most oceanic sediments, the layer of small particles at the bottom of a body of water, rather...
    11 KB (1,204 words) - 02:33, 13 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for National Oceanography Centre Southampton
    The British Ocean Sediment Core Repository (BOSCORF) located at NOCS and operated by NERC is the central storage facility for sediment cores collected...
    15 KB (1,559 words) - 13:57, 17 June 2024
  • to drill in the open ocean for comparison. In 2016, International Ocean Discovery Program Leg 370 drilled into the marine sediment of the Nankai Accretionary...
    84 KB (9,898 words) - 03:14, 2 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Palm Islands
    and ended around 2006/2007. These islands have significantly impacted ocean sediment and wildlife in the surrounding area.[unreliable source?] Palm Jumeirah...
    17 KB (1,913 words) - 13:50, 11 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Biogenic silica
    Southern Ocean, where few biogenic carbonates are preserved. The remains of diatoms and other silica-utilizing organisms are found, as opal sediments within...
    21 KB (2,635 words) - 00:24, 17 October 2023
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    continuous removal process from the ocean's water column as degrading organic material sinks to the ocean floor as sediment. Phosphate from intensive agriculture...
    127 KB (16,955 words) - 04:59, 18 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ice age
    variations in the ratios of isotopes in fossils present in sediments and sedimentary rocks and ocean sediment cores. For the most recent glacial periods, ice cores...
    88 KB (10,428 words) - 03:42, 7 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Environmental DNA
    (tundra permafrost), aquatic soil sampling (river, lake, pond, and ocean sediment), or other environments where normal sampling procedures can become...
    131 KB (13,420 words) - 08:03, 16 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Micrometeorite
    collection of HMS Challenger, cosmic spherules have been recovered from ocean sediments using cores, box cores, clamshell grabbers, and magnetic sleds. Among...
    46 KB (4,553 words) - 16:49, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Convergent boundary
    wedge forms on the continental crust as deep-sea sediments and oceanic crust are scraped from the oceanic plate. Volcanic arcs form on continental lithosphere...
    20 KB (2,381 words) - 05:34, 23 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Silicate mineral
    seawater. The frustules of dead diatoms are a major constituent of deep ocean sediment, and of diatomaceous earth.[citation needed] A silicate mineral is generally...
    20 KB (1,897 words) - 18:13, 5 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Proxy (climate)
    rings, species composition of sub-fossil pollen in lake sediment or foraminifera in ocean sediments, temperature profiles of boreholes, and stable isotopes...
    34 KB (4,071 words) - 05:40, 23 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sediment transport
    sloping surface on which they are resting. Sediment transport due to fluid motion occurs in rivers, oceans, lakes, seas, and other bodies of water due...
    56 KB (8,282 words) - 12:17, 14 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sedimentary rock
    settle in place. The particles that form a sedimentary rock are called sediment, and may be composed of geological detritus (minerals) or biological detritus...
    63 KB (7,683 words) - 02:31, 19 April 2024
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