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Marine Sediments
Chapter 5: Marine Sediments
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Scale that measures grain size of sediments | Wentworth Scale |
| sediment from life | biogenous |
| sediment from land | terrigenous |
| sediment from space | cosmogenous |
| sediment from rock | lithogenous |
| sediment from dissolved ions | hydrogenous |
| example of hydrogenous sediment | manganese nodules |
| shallow-water ooze | calcareous ooze |
| increases with distance from source | sediment maturity |
| relationship between current velocity and grain size | Huljstrom's Curve |