what can you say about the thickness of the sediments far from the ridge

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According to the search results, the thickness of sediments far from the ridge is generally thicker than those near the ridge. This is because the seafloor is older and has had more time to accumulate sediments. As you move away from the ridge spreading center, the sediments get progressively thicker, increasing by approximately 100-200 m of sediment for every 1000 km distance from the ridge axis/12%3A_Ocean_Sediments/12.06%3A_Sediment_Distribution). Sediments are thickest near the continental margins where they can be over 10 km thick because the crust near passive continental margins is often very old, allowing for a long period of accumulation, and because there is a large amount of terrigenous sediment input coming from the continents/12%3A_Ocean_Sediments/12.06%3A_Sediment_Distribution).