| The dark terrigenous layers are related to the amount of precipitation that falls in a given year during the rainy winter months. |
| And thus there are vast regions of the oceanic depressions over which no terrigenous or land-derived materials are accumulating. |
| Moreover, this water, recharged with terrigenous nutrients, finds its way back to the sea where it feeds complex biotic and abiotic processes. |
| Those terrigenous sediments occur mostly on the continental shelves, slopes, and rises, and they merge into abyssal plains. |
| The fate of terrigenous organic matter during riverine and estuarine transport. |
| These widespread deposits included both terrigenous clastics and limestones. |
