Oil and natural gas are the most valuable non-living resources taken from the ocean. Extracting these resources requires drilling into the seafloor.

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• to 1. ¼–½ mm. 0.010–0.020 in. Medium sand.
• to 2. 125–250 µm. 0.0049–0.010 in. Fine sand.
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Igneous textures include the rock textures occurring in igneous rocks. Igneous textures are used by geologists in determining the mode of origin of igneous rocks and are used in rock classification. There are six main types of textures; phaneritic, aphanitic, porphyritic, glassy, pyroclastic and pegmatitic.

extrusive igneous rock

There are two major sources of sediment: eroding land and stream banks—called watershed sources of sediment—and eroding shorelines and coasts—called tidal sources of sediment.

Sources of terrigenous sediments include volcanoes, weathering of rocks, wind-blown dust, grinding by glaciers, and sediment carried by rivers or icebergs. Terrigenous sediments are responsible for a significant amount of the salt in today’s oceans.

Sediments are classified according to their size. In order to define them from the smallest size to the largest size: clay, silt, sand, pebble, cobble, and boulder.

Hydrogenous sediments are sediments directly precipitated from water. Examples include rocks called evaporites formed by the evaporation of salt bearing water (seawater or briny freshwater).

Lithogenous is the most common neretic deposit because neretic deposits are close to the shore, where lithogenous sediments are created. biogenous oozes are the most common pelagic deposit because pelagic areas are the most productive area of the ocean, where the most biogenous ooze is created.

Lithogenous or terrigenous sediment is primarily composed of small fragments of preexisting rocks that have made their way into the ocean. These sediments can contain the entire range of particle sizes, from microscopic clays to large boulders , and they are found almost everywhere on the ocean floor.

What is the difference between neritic and pelagic deposits? Neritic (of the coast) deposits are found on continental shelves and in shallow water near islands; these deposits are generally coarse grained. Pelagic (of the sea) deposits are found in the deep-ocean basins and are typically finer-grained materials.

Red clay, also known as either brown clay or pelagic clay, accumulates in the deepest and most remote areas of the ocean. It covers 38% of the ocean floor and accumulates more slowly than any other sediment type, at only 0.1–0.5 cm/1000 yr.

The distribution of modern calcareous ooze is generally found along mid-ocean ridges and in low-latitude ocean basins. The reason for this occurrence is that most mid-ocean ridges are at a level higher than the CCD and that low-latitude ocean basins are typically warm and often not as deep as the CCD.

Of the 4 types of sediments, lithogenous and biogenous sediments are the most abundant on Earth today. Lithogenous sediment dominate the regions adjacent to continental landmasses (continental margins).

Most deep ocean sediments are silt and mud. Most sediments form as rocks are broken down into smaller particles such as sand and clay.

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