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14 Cards in this Set
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Underlain by continental crust buy is often covered by seawater
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Continental Shelf
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edge of continental shelf, big gradient into deep ocean
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shelf break
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transition between slope and abyssal plane
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continental rise
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one side has shelf and the other side has land
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pericontinental sea
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non-existant in present day, a sea that recieved sediment from more than one side
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epicontinental sea
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dumps sediment into a delta dispersing out into the floor
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sediment plumes
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because of the spinning of the earth most of the particles in the ocean are deflected to the left
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corialis effect
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waves and storms are more important than tidal processes in these shelves
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storm and wave dominated shelf
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depth of the water in which orbital are no longer impacting the sea floor
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wave base
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during storms, net sediment is deposited seward
key structure is hummocky cross beds during storms |
storm and wave dominated shelf
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water is piled up to shore due to tides and winds giving a deeper current back to the ocean
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geostrophic currents
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couplets of fine and course grain sediments generally deposited by tides
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tidalites/tidal rhythmites
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sediemtns in the ocean left over from times of different sea levels
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relic sediments
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reworking sediments on the floor of the shelf
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bioturbation
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