An ooze is a fine-grained pelagic sediment, laid down in the open ocean, made mostly of the skeletons of plankton. It is a calcareous ooze when they are of calcium carbonate, chiefly coccoliths and foraminifera, and a siliceous ooze when they are of opal, hydrated amorphous silica, chiefly diatoms and radiolarians.
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什么是 Calcareous ooze, siliceous ooze?
又称: calcareous ooze · siliceous ooze