When sediments deposit in lakes or oceans, how do they lay? in large vertical mounds that spread out towards thin horizontal layers in small, wide vertical mounds in flat horizontal layers in thick horizontal layers

"In flat horizontal layers" is the one among the following choices given in the question that describes the way how sediments deposit in lakes or oceans. The correct option among all the options that are given in the question is the third option. I hope that this is the answer that has come to your desired help.

In the air and in the lower fre ah water