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Hemipelagic sediment, or hemipelagite, is a type of
marine sediment that
consists of clay and silt-sized
grains that are
terrigenous and some biogenic...
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transport and has a
large impact on
biogeochemical cycles.
Pelagic and
hemipelagic processes Sediment supply from
terrigenous and
biological sources as...
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terrestrial material,
basalts from the
ocean floor, and
pelagic and
hemipelagic sediments. For example, most of the
geological ba****t of ****an is made...
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Disseminated organic debris,
burrows Low-density
turbidity currents,
hemipelagic settling Conglomeratic mudstone Gravelly,
sandy mudstone Deformed bedding...
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layer of
hemipelagic sediments.
These sediments average 200
meters (660 ft) in
thickness and are
expected to
consist predominantly of
hemipelagic clay. Overlying...
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platform mostly of Obtusum-Ibex age, that
gradually evolve to open marine/
hemipelagic units Vale das
Fontes Formation and
Lemede formation. This unit is known...
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sequence boundary ‘t0’
represents the
unconformity between the
hemipelagic sediments and
overlying trench-fill sediments. This
surface lessens in...
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depths between 300 and 800 m (980 and 2,620 ft) are
covered in
hemipelagic sediments (i.e., of semi-oceanic origin);
these sediments are composed...
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continental slope. More
gradual ac****ulation of
sediments occurs when
hemipelagic sediments suspended in the
ocean slowly settle to the
ocean basin. Because...
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sedimentation on
Academician Ridge is
restricted to fine,
continuous hemipelagic sedimentation with dis****d co****-grained
sediment deposited by ice...
