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Sources of Deep Ocean-Basin Sediments, continued Chemical Deposits When substances that are dissolved in ocean water crystallize, these materials settle to the ocean floor as potato-shaped lumps of minerals called nodules. nodule a lump of minerals that is made of oxides of manganese, iron, copper, or nickel and that is found in scattered groups on the ocean floor Other minerals, such as phosphates, are also carried in the ocean floor before they crystallize and form mineral deposits on the ...
Detrital refers to mineral grains and rock fragments, such as sand grains or pebbles, that are produced during the weathering process and transported to the site of deposition as particles. The most abundant detrital minerals in sediments are quartz and clays. Quartz is an abundant mineral in many rocks.hus quartz can be thought of as a residual mineral, left over and concentrated in detrital sediments after the other rock-forming minerals, such as feldspars and ferromagnesians, have been decomposed. Clays are major components of shales and mudstones but are rarely abundant in other common rocks.