red clay

geology

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composition

  • development workings of an underground mine
    In mining: The seafloor

    An estimated 1016 tons of red clay covers about 104 million square km (40 million square miles) of the ocean floor. Although compositional analyses are not particularly exciting, red clay may possess some value as a raw material in the clay products industries, or it may serve as a source…

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found in Pacific Ocean

  • The Pacific Ocean, with depth contours and submarine features
    In Pacific Ocean: Bottom deposits

    …where the characteristic deposit is red clay. Red clay, which covers no less than half of the Pacific floor, is believed to be formed of colloidal (extremely finely divided) clays derived essentially from the land.

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