Ocean SciencesEdward John Long |
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... basins , the Eurasian Basin on the Atlantic side , and the Canadian Basin on the Pacific side . The Soviet drifting - station program had , by 1959 , yielded some eight hundred cores of bottom sediment . Most of these cores are from ...
... basins , the Eurasian Basin on the Atlantic side , and the Canadian Basin on the Pacific side . The Soviet drifting - station program had , by 1959 , yielded some eight hundred cores of bottom sediment . Most of these cores are from ...
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... basin . The deep basins lying at a depth of about four thousand to five thousand meters constitute the truly oceanic level of the earth . These basins make up about one - half of the whole earth's surface . How it came about that there ...
... basin . The deep basins lying at a depth of about four thousand to five thousand meters constitute the truly oceanic level of the earth . These basins make up about one - half of the whole earth's surface . How it came about that there ...
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... basins , there are other geologic forms , both conspicuous and important structurally . Smooth abyssal plains occupy large parts of the ocean basins in the Atlantic , the Indian , and the northeast Pacific . It had been long known that ...
... basins , there are other geologic forms , both conspicuous and important structurally . Smooth abyssal plains occupy large parts of the ocean basins in the Atlantic , the Indian , and the northeast Pacific . It had been long known that ...
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