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Marine Sedimentary Rock

Marine sedimentary rock is any deposit of insoluble material transported from land areas to the ocean by wind, ice and rivers, as well as the remains of marine organisms, products of submarine volcanism and chemical precipitates from seawater that accumulates on the seafloor.