Topic: Sediments

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TopicSediments

• Broadcast 3
• January 31, 2001
• Mrs. Joan Linsley

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Sediments
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Sediment Distribution
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Sediment Types
Wind Blown Ash Layer
Clay
Terrigenous
Carbonate Ooze
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Identification Tools/Lithology

• Color
• Grain Size
• Composition
• Texture

Spectro- photometer
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Reef Distribution
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Reefs
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Reef Sediment Types
Lives on Surface
Silts
Skeletal Remains
Mud
Clays
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Definitions

• Stratigraphy  The science of studying rock
  layers, or strata.  It is concerned with all
  characters and attributes of rocks as strata, the
  order in which they were formed, and the
  matching, or correlation, of similar strata
  between different locations.
• Lithostratigraphy  The part of stratigraphy that
  organizes rocks into units (formations), and
  correlates rocks between different locations,
  based on their  lithology.

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Guest

• Dr. Peter Blum Staff Scientist

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Lithostratigraphy Results
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