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The three types of ocean floor sediments are terrigenous, biogenous, and _____.
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The three types of ocean floor sediments are terrigenous, biogenous, and _____.

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There are three kinds of sea floor sediment: terrigenous, pelagic, and hydrogenous. Terrigenous sediment is derived from land and usually deposited on the continental shelf, continental rise, and abyssal plain.
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Seafloor sediment consist mostly of terrigenous sediment, biogenous sediment and hydrogenous sediment. Terrigenous sediments form from sediments carried from the land into the ocean by water, wind or ice.

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