Question

In regions of the seafloor below the Carbonate (Calcite) Compensation Depth (CCD) and without an influx of lithogenous sediment, you would expect to find:

a. Carbonate (calcareous) ooze deposition
b. Pelagic (abyssal) clay (mud) deposition.
c. Manganese nodules.
d. Siliceous ooze deposition.

Answer 1

A. Carbonate (calcareous) ooze deposition

Explanation: Oozes are mainly deposits of soft mud released from sediments below the sea flour,it is divided into two(2) calcareous oozes and silicon oozes ,calcareous ooze deposits are found in regions making up about 48% of the entire deep ocean sediment,they are without lithogenous sediments (made up of small particles of weathered rocks and oceanic volcanoes).Calcareous ooze deposits contains the shells of planktonic foraminifera, and pteropod ooze, made up of shells of pelagic mollusks.