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The components of marine sediments

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Marine Geochemistry

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A number of the components that form the sediment building blocks will be described in the present chapter. However, it must be stressed again that no attempt will be made to adopt an all-embracing catalogue approach to the subject; rather, a limited number of individual components have been selected on the basis that they can provide information on the processes that control the mineralogical and chemical compositions of oceanic sediments. These sediment building-block components are described below in terms of a modification of the ‘geosphere of origin’ classification proposed by Goldberg (1954).

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Chester, R. (1990). The components of marine sediments. In: Marine Geochemistry. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9488-7_15

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