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6. You are on a research cruise and you leave Japan, heading east. At about 1500 kilometers east of Japan you encounter a large volcanic plateau (Shatsky Rise) that is covered with sediments. You lower a piston core to sample the sediments and the wire indicator says 2500 meters of water depth. What kind of sediment will the core likely contain?• Carbonate ooze T/F

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TRUE - Carbonate ooze

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Carbonate ooze covers almost half of the world's seas floor. It is a calcium carbonate mud formed from that hard parts of free floating organisms in the river body. They are present above depth of 4500 meters. So at a water depth of 2500 meters, the sediments would most likely contain carbonate ooze. They are predominant in the deep Atlantic seafloor.

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