2021年2月15日 · Abyssal Clays. Abyssal clays are very fine-grained sediments, mostly clay minerals and iron-rich mineral dust that are mostly blow in by the wind from distant terrestrial …

Red clay, also known as abyssal clay however, is mostly located in the ocean and is formed from a combination of terrigenous material and volcanic ash. In terms of size, terrigenous particles …

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Much of the rest of the deep ocean floor (about 38%) is dominated by abyssal clays. This is not so much a result of an abundance of clay formation, but rather the lack of any other types of …

When these tiny particles settle in areas where little other material is being deposited (usually in the deep-ocean basins far from land), they form a sediment called abyssal clay. Table 1. …

2018年6月14日 · Abyssal clays in the deep ocean basins accumulate very slowly relative to other ocean sediments. Abyssal clays dominate sediments on the seafloor in the northern Pacific …

2007年1月1日 · Clay minerals are the main constituents of recent deep-sea or abyssal sediments. Their role as paleoclimatic and paleoceanographic indicators has been investigated by X-ray …

2015年3月16日 · Deep abyssal clay sediments in organic-poor regions of the ocean present challenging conditions for life. Techniques for identifying cells at extremely low concentrations …

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