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- till are ice-transported sediments. Sediment can be classified based on its grain size, grain shape, and composition. Sediment size is measured on a log...
- also occur within pelagic sediments. Based upon the composition of the ooze, there are three main types of pelagic sediments: siliceous oozes, calcareous...
- Compaction takes place as the sediments come under increasing overburden (lithostatic) pressure from overlying sediments. Sediment grains move into more compact...
- smaller sediments are washed away. The smaller sediments present under this layer of large gravel have a lower possibility of movement and total sediment transport...
- component of lithogenous sediments, including sand. Biogenous sediments come from the remains of living organisms that settle out as sediment when the organisms...
- sediments, either in unconsolidated deposits or in sedimentary rocks. The degree of sorting is determined by the range of grain sizes in a sediment deposit...
- 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...
- landform, archetypically triangular, created by the deposition of the sediments that are carried by the waters of a river, where the river merges with...
- source rocks; deposition of these sediments is largely limited to the continental shelf. Sources of terrigenous sediments include volcanoes, weathering of...
- sedimentary rock, from initial erosion through sediment transport and settling to the lithification of the sediments. However, the strict geological definition...