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Sediment Sheet

Term · Environment · MLC-T-ENV-025086

A thin, widespread, sedimentary deposit, formed by a transgressive sea advancing for a considerable distance over a stable shelf area; may also be called a blanket deposit (Bates and Jackson 1984).

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ENV-025086
FieldEnvironment
ReferencesFederal Geographic Data Committee Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard, June 2012 FGDC-STD-018-2012
Record as JSON 
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  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-025086",
  "term": "Sediment Sheet",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "A thin, widespread, sedimentary deposit, formed by a transgressive sea advancing for a considerable distance over a stable shelf area; may also be called a blanket deposit (Bates and Jackson 1984).",
  "references": [
    "Federal Geographic Data Committee Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard, June 2012 FGDC-STD-018-2012"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/sediment-sheet/"
}

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