Introduction_to_Oceanography Review the video links and discuss the impressed: W

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Introduction_to_Oceanography

Review the video links and discuss the impressed: Why was it interesting to you and what have you learned? At least 6 complete sentences are required for your answer.

Sediment is considered the recorder of the ocean. This video, although not directly related to ocean sediment, shows how the past of the Earth history could be recorded in the salt, which also occurred in ocean sediments.

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The fact that, while going down we are travelling at a rate of 2million years/ sec is mesmerizing. story about how sedimentary formations occur is explained well. Also, I got to know about fluid inclusions, which is water vapour trapped inside rock ,while they formed. How some thing which is 250 my old acts as a a store house of information. Perfecty preserved cellulose fibers inside those inclusions and the fact that , it can be used to carry out studies to understand plant behaviour at that time is intresting. Also, it is to be noted that, its is quite diffrent from fossils, because fossils are minearalized specimen as opposed to perfectly preserved one in inclusions.

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