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What does terrigenous mean?

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Adjective
  1. Produced by the earth.
  2. (geology, of a marine sediment) Derived from the erosion of land-based rocks.
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The dark terrigenous layers are related to the amount of precipitation that falls in a given year during the rainy winter months.
The higher levels may be affected by terrigenous additions linked to continental gully erosion, especially after big fires.
Those terrigenous sediments occur mostly on the continental shelves, slopes, and rises, and they merge into abyssal plains.
These widespread deposits included both terrigenous clastics and limestones.
In addition, intercalated terrigenous turbidites exhibit considerable lateral variation in bed thickness.
The specimen was buried by a rapid influx of terrigenous mud.

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