Siliceous ooze
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Siliceous ooze is a type of biogenic pelagic sediment located on the deep ocean floor. Siliceous oozes are the least common of the deep sea sediments, and make up approximately 15% of the ocean floor.
A centric diatom, magnified ×150
A radiolarian, magnified ×160
Diatom bloom in the South Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Argentina
Sediment cores, like these from the South Atlantic, allow paleoceanographers to handle and study paleo-oozes
Pelagic sediment
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Pelagic sediment or pelagite is a fine-grained sediment that accumulates as the result of the settling of particles to the floor of the open ocean, far from land. These particles consist primarily of
Siliceous ooze
…Siliceous ooze is a type of biogenic pelagic sediment located on the deep ocean floor. Siliceous oozes are the least common of the deep sea sediments, and make up approximately 15% of the ocean floor. Oozes…
Tripodfish on pelagic sediment
Total sediment thickness of the ocean floor Deposits are thick on the continental shelves, and thinnest in the deep sea on either side of the mid-ocean ridge.
Channel Stellarton Fm Coalburn Pit