| 1. | The composition of pelagic sediments is controlled by three main factors.
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| 2. | The remainder of the sediment is composed chiefly of pelagic sediments.
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| 3. | Between the epiclastics and muds lie background accumulations of pelagic sediment.
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| 4. | These pelagic sediments are typically bright red to chocolate brown in color.
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| 5. | Pelagic sediments of red mud dominate the deeper regions.
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| 6. | Between the carbonate banks, coeval pelagic sediment was deposited in the intervening structural lows.
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| 7. | Such instrumentation includes acoustic mappers and a pelagic sediment profiler to produce maps of the sea floor.
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| 8. | Pelagic sediments, containing significant quantities of siliceous biogenic remains, are commonly referred to as siliceous ooze.
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| 9. | As the least common type of pelagic sediment, it covers only 15 % of the ocean floor.
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| 10. | Though slow by human standards, this rate is much faster than that for deep-sea pelagic sediments.
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