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Most of the sediment deposited in sedimentary basins is derived from land areas exposed to subaerial weathering. This is, to some extent, also true for biogenic and chemical sediments, insofar as their production depends on the dissolved river load delivered into the sedimentary basins. The land-derived, solid material is usually referred to as the terrigenous, allochthonous, clastic component of a sedimentary deposit.
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Einsele, G. (2000). Denudation: Solute Transport and Flux Rates of Terrigenous Sediment. In: Sedimentary Basins. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04029-4_9
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