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Title: 7-8a sedimentary environment

Description: sedimentary rock environments

Total Flash Cards: 7

Created: 02/03/2010 11:12:50

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Prima Ballerina
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  • A shallow brackish body of water that is located near the ocean, separated by the deeper sea.
  • Sediments that are found are rocks, sand, gravel, pebbles.
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  • Wetlands that forms near the coast when mud from tides and rivers are deposited.
  • Sediments found are sands, pebbles, rocks.
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  • Rocks or sandbars that that resulted from abiotic factor.
  • Sediments found are skeletal fragments of dead fishes, sands, pebbles.
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  • Extensions of each continents. It is undersea during the glacial periods.
  • Sediments found are rocks, sands, gravel, pebbles, and skeletal fragments of dead fishes.
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  • Continental slope is located below the shelf and the continental rise is located below the slope.
  • Sediments found are rocks, sands, gravel, pebbles, skeletal fragments of dead fishes.
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  • The flat or slightly sloped plain that is located on the bottom of the seafloor, mostly located near the ocean trenches.
  • Sediments found are sands, and pebbles.