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III. IT remains now to point out the area occupied by the red clay. We have seen how it passes at its margins into organic calcareous oozes, found in the lesser depths of the abysmal regions, or into the siliceous organic oozes or terrigenous deposits. In its typical form the red clay occupies a larger area than any of the other true deep-sea deposits, covering the bottom in vast regions of the North and South Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans. As above remarked, this clay may be said to be universally distributed over the floor of the oceanic basins; but it only appears as a true deposit at points where the siliceous and calcareous organisms do not conceal its proper characters.
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On The Nomenclature, Origin, And Distribution Of Deep-Sea Deposits 1 . Nature 30, 132–135 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/030132a0
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