Ocean Sediments

2. Contained in the White Cliffs of Dover.
4. Sediment containing a significant amounts of shells, bones, teeth, etc.
8. A term referring to the texture of individual grains of sediment.
9. Controls how large of a grain of sediment can be transported.
10. Slightly larger than a grain of sand.
11. Terms such as sand, clay, silt refer to this.
13. Submarine avalanches
15. Slightly smaller than a grain of sand.
18. Materials deposited in deep-sea sediments as a result of melting ice.
21. The degree of this in marine sediments depends on a balance between biological productivity and preservation.
23. An example: Manganese nodules
24. Typeof marine sediment that is not usually significant and rarely found.

1. Describing the composition of sediments rich in radiolaria and diatoms
3. Changes in this will expose less or more of the continental shelf.
5. As you move further away from a mid-ocean ridge, the amount of sediment deposited __________.
6. An extremely large grain of sediment
7. A type of calcareous marine organism.
12. The leftovers from any process that occurs in the water column.
14. Process that transports the finest materials on Earth to the middle of the oceans.
16. It is cold where this occurs, but this phenomenon occurs due to organic matter, not temperature.
17. Originating from once living organisms.
19. A large source of sand and silt sized sediments to the continental shelf
20. An extremely small grain of sediment
22. Characterized as being rich in silica or quartz.