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... layer , both the temperature and the sound velocity decrease with depth . Under the mixed layer , the temperature drops rapidly in the " thermo- cline layer , " which reaches a depth ranging from two thousand feet in the Pacific Ocean ...
... layer , both the temperature and the sound velocity decrease with depth . Under the mixed layer , the temperature drops rapidly in the " thermo- cline layer , " which reaches a depth ranging from two thousand feet in the Pacific Ocean ...
Page 108
... layers has not been fully identified . A large number of hypotheses based on a considerably smaller number of field and laboratory experiments have suggested that the deep - scattering layer was composed of shrimp or copepods , a ...
... layers has not been fully identified . A large number of hypotheses based on a considerably smaller number of field and laboratory experiments have suggested that the deep - scattering layer was composed of shrimp or copepods , a ...
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... layer of sand a few meters deep , covering a thick layer of heavy shells . These shells are from forms which live only in very shallow water . As the water became too deep for their survival , they died out . Gradually their shells were ...
... layer of sand a few meters deep , covering a thick layer of heavy shells . These shells are from forms which live only in very shallow water . As the water became too deep for their survival , they died out . Gradually their shells were ...
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