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How does a whale-fall community affect ocean sediment?

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The sediment is transformed into food for mussels and crabs

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When a whale dies it sinks to the ocean floor, and it's carcass is known as whale-fall. As the whale's carcass lies on the ocean floor, it's organic fragments enrich the sediment.

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