occurs in adjacent to output of continental shelf neritic pelagic zone biome marine sediment shallow marine sediment In this definition we refer to sedimentation processes that occured above the shelf, however this should be relaxed to include the continental shelf and slope. shallow marine sediments output of sedimentation process which occured in neritic zone biome neritic marine sediment Marine sediment soured from either terrestrial systems, marine organisms, seawater and or cosmogeneous sources, which is transported through the marine water column, and accumulates within shallow regions of the oceanic basin close to continents, such as the continental shelf, or continental slope. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3410-4655 envoPolar sedimentation in a water body