sediments produced by plants and animals in the sea are called legacy sediment.
sediments produced by plants and animals in the sea are called legacy sediment.
sediments produced by plants and animals in the sea called?
legacy sediment
new siberia island consists of clastic sediments ranging from late cretaceous to pleistocene in age. the late cretaceous sediments consist of extensively folded layers of gray and greenish gray tuffaceous sand, tuffaceous silt, pebbly sand, and layers of brown coal exposed in sea cliffs along it southwest coast. the sand and silt often contain either volcanic glass, fossil plants, rhyolite pebbles, or some combination of them. eocene sand, silt, clay, and brown coal overlies an erosional unconformity cut into the late cretaceous sediments. within the northwest part of new siberia island, these sediments grade into clays that contain fragments of marine bivalves. directly overlying the eocene sediments and another erosional unconformity are sands of oligocene and early miocene age. they contain thin beds of silt, mud, clay, and pebbles. these sands contain fossil plants and lagoonal, swamp, and lacustrine diatoms. these sands are overlain by pliocene sediments consisting of layers of sand, silt, mud, peat, and pebbles.
new siberia
sediments containing terrestrial and aquatic mollusks and ostracods span 130,000 to 87,000 years ago. these sediments produced 12 identifiable taxa of terrestrial gastropods, 5 taxa of aquatic bivalves, 8 taxa of aquatic gastropods, along with 7 taxa of ostracodes. these taxa indicate that the ancient lakeshore was a shallow, well-vegetated, fresh water wetland during the time periods sampled.









































section::::fossil flora.
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