Sentence examples for biogenic sediments from inspiring English sources

Changes in seafloor spreading rates and glaciations have caused sea levels to rise and fall, greatly altering the deep-sea sedimentation pattern of both terrigenous and biogenic sediments.

This resulted in increased deposition of biogenic sediments in the ocean basin.

The Pacific Plate has been steadily moving northward, so that biogenic sediments of the equatorial regions are found in core samples taken in the barren North Pacific.

Many of the depressions do not contain biogenic sediments of the Eemian Interglacial.

Most carbonate rocks are formed by biological activity, developing from the biogenic sediments gathered during reef building and accumulation of the remains of organisms on the seabed.

The paper presents the results of the research on biogenic sediments from the Jałówka profile (Podlasie region, NE Poland) situated at the foot of a dry valley slope.

Biogenic ooze, also called biogenic sediment, any pelagic sediment that contains more than 30 percent skeletal material.

c Residual component extracted from early-mid Eocene biogenic sediment at Site 1215 as defined in Ziegler et al. (2007).

Biogenic sedimentation also increased and fluctuated with the glacial episodes.

TOC and opal mass accumulation rates (MARs, based on bulk density and 210Pb-derived sediment MAR) suggest dilution with terrigenous, inorganic detrital materials accounts for the low concentrations of both biogenic phases in sediments from the glacial tidewater fjords of Muir and Yakutat Bays but not elsewhere.

Bioturbation, the biogenic mixing of sediments, has a regulating role in marine biogeochemical processes.