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What is flat area of ocean floor covered in mud sand and plant and animal remains?
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Why are diatom shells found in ocean-floor sediments?
diatom shells settle on the ocean floor from the surface
Where can you find the youngest rocks on the ocean floor?
you can find the youngest rocks on the top of the ocean floor.
In the process of sea-floor spreading how does the ocean floor become wider?
New floor forms and spreads from mid-ocean ridges
What is the axial rift?
A deep axial rift is a valley occurring at slow spreading mid-ocean ridges. The edges of such rifts are very rugged, and causing a good portion of the ocean floor to be covered in rough abyssal hills.
What does ocean sea floor mean?
Ocean sea floor is the bottom of the ocean, under all the water, also known as benthos.
Ooze on the ocean floor is formed from the remains of which of these?
dead organisms
What 3 things is the ocean floor covered with?
its covered with rock and stones
Ooze is described as the remains of that settle on the ocean floor?
dead organisms A+
What if old rocks are rare are on the ocean floor?
It is believed that old rocks are rare on ocean floors bevause the floor has manny remains and we are not unable to reach them
What organism covered the ocean floor for much of the Paleozoic Era?
Trilobites
What is the ocean floor covered with thick layers of?
Sexual coment
What is most of the floor of the North Pacific Ocean covered with?
Biogenous are dominant on deep-ocean floors.
Description about topography of ocean floor?
The relationship between the existence of the plume influence and ocean floor topography.
Which ocean feature is a flat area covered by a layer of mud sand and animal remain?
mid ocean ridge
Oil and coal are?
Oil is a concentrated by-product from the decay of ancient plant and animal remains on the ocean floor and is considered a natural resource but not a mineral. Coal deposits are composed of the remains of mostly plant life that has undergone sedimentation and lithification. It is not considered a mineral, but a sedimentary rock.
How is petroleum formed?
scientists think that petroleum formed from the remains of plankton and other microscopic protists, plants, and animals living in shallow seas millions of years ago. The remains of these organisms settled on the ocean floor and were covered by sediments. Over millions of years, the pressure and heat produced by the sediments coverted the remains of these organisms into a syrupy liquid.
Are oil and coal minerals?
Oil is a concentrated by-product from the decay of ancient plant and animal remains on the ocean floor and is considered a natural resource but not a mineral. Coal deposits are composed of the remains of mostly plant life that has undergone sedimentation and lithification. It is not considered a mineral, but a sedimentary rock.
