calcite compensation depth

The depth in the ocean (about 5000 meters) below which solution of calcium carbonate occurs at a faster rate than its deposition. Abbreviated CCD.

Related terms:

• depth of compensation
• compensation depth
• sill depth
• Baryto-Calcite
• thermometric depth
• isostatic compensation
• depth-duration-area value
• pressure depth
• Calcite
• lysocline