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Radiolarian ooze - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Radiolarian ooze is a soft siliceous sediment that covers large areas of the deep ocean floor. It consists of the skeletal remains of radiolarians that have settled upon the ocean floor. In deep ocea...
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Pelagic sediments - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pelagic sediments , also known as marine sediments , are those that accumulate in the abyssal plain of the deep ocean, far away from terrestrial sources that provide terrigenous sediments; the latt...
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There are two types of oozes, calcareous ooze and siliceous ooze. Calcareous ooze, the most abundant of all biogenous sediments, comes from organisms whose shells (also called tests) are calcium-based, such as those of foraminifera, a type of zooplankton.
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Distribution of siliceous ooze. Silica slowly but steadily dissolves in seawater. Siliceous ooze found where it accumulates faster than it dissolves ...
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siliceous ooze - Scientific definition of siliceous ooze from A Dictionary of Earth Sciences at Encyclopedia.com ... siliceous ooze Fine-grained pelagic deposit of the deep-ocean floor with more than 30% siliceous material of organic origin. Radiolaria and diatom remains are the major constituents of the siliceous oozes,
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siliceous ooze A fine-grained sediment of pelagic origin found on the deep-ocean floor. It contains more than 30% siliceous material of organic origin and is usually found below the carbon compensation depth at depths greater than 4500 m. Two types of this are radiolarian oozes and diatom oozes...
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