Geology 330 - Television Course

Review Questions for Program #6: The Ocean's Memory

Please fill out and return this sheet after viewing Program #6. If you are unsure of an answer, give your best intelligent guess.

1. How are terrigenous sediments derived?

2. How are biogenous sediments derived?

3. What are some examples of hydrogenous sediments?

4. Where do cosmogenous sediments come from?

5. What are two principle natural resources that come from marine sediments?

6. What information about past climates can be found in sediments?

7. How old are the oldest marine sediments on the sea floor?

8. What are some ways to extract sediment cores?

9. Which programs have been involved in drilling ocean sediments?

10. What is the distribution of sediments by grain size?