Discuss the size distribution and movement of neritic sediments from the shoreline outward towards the deep ocean. What will be an ideal response?
Most neritic sediments are terrigenous; they are eroded from the land and carried to
streams, where they are transported to the ocean. Currents distribute sand and larger
particles along the coast; wave action carries the silts and clays to deeper water.
When the water is too deep to be disturbed by wave action, the finest sediment may
come to rest or continue to be transported by the turbulence of deep currents toward
the deeper ocean floor. Ideally, these processes produce an orderly sorting of particles by size from relatively large grains near the coast to relatively small grains near the
shelf break.
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