How are sediments spread over wide areas of the deep ocean basin?
Sediments are spread over wide areas of the deep-ocean basins by the action of turbidity currents. A turbidity current is a current of rapidly moving, sediment-laden water moving down a slope through water, or another fluid. ChaCha!
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