Pelagic environments.
Pelagic sediments are chiefly composed of the microscopic skeletal remains of planktonic animals and plants, variously diluted by non-biogenic components. Such sediments may be carbonate-rich, silica-rich or clay-rich and they change in facies when traced laterally across the ocean and vertically th...
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Blackwell Scientific
1986
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