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marine sediment
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marine sediment

Any deposit of insoluble material, primarily rock and soil particles, transported from land areas to the ocean by wind, ice, and rivers, as well as the remains of marine organisms, products of submarine volcanic activity, and chemical precipitates from seawater that accumulate on the seafloor.
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Early oxidation of organic matter in pelagic sediments of the eastern equatorial Atlantic: suboxic diagenesis.
Effect of habitat biogeochemicals on survival of lobsters (Homarus ... by Pitchford, Steven / Journal of Shellfish Research
The other components contain "materials" such as basaltic ocean floor (HIMU), pelagic sediments (EM1), oceanic plateaus (EM1), subcontinental lithosphere (EM1, EM2), terrigenous sediments or subducted continental crust (EM2), which have been recycled by subduction processes, and mixed back into the depleted mantle.
Igneous rock associations 5. oceanic island volcanism II: mantle ... by Mallory-Greenough, Leanne M. / Geoscience Canada
Detailed stratigraphic work in the Shimanto belt of Japan, for example, showed an orderly sequence before disruption: oceanic basement (basalts), pelagic sediments, hemipelagic sediments with silicic tephras and muddy turbidites, and coarser grained turbidites, basically similar to that found in the Nankai Trough.
When plates collide: convergent-margin geology by Taira, Asahiko / Oceanus
 
 
 
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