In this week’s reading from chapter 5 ocean sediments, I learned a lot about sediments and different types that I never knew existed. The ocean the floor and particles moving around the ocean are actually called sediments. The sediments accumulate at a rate of centimeters in a year. Sediments are caused by various things happening inside of the ocean such as volcanic eruptions, rocks eroding, chemical reactions in the water and evidence of space matter. These sediments are classified into four different groups terrigenous, biogenous, hydrogenous and cosmogenous. Sediments also differ according to what they are actually made of. Terrigenous sediments are parts of eroding land or pieces from a volcano that has erupted. This is actually
