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... move ? A new science of paleomagnetism is reviving the old theory that the world's continents were once joined together in one original land mass that finally split up and slowly drifted apart . Suppose we take the continental drift ...
... move ? A new science of paleomagnetism is reviving the old theory that the world's continents were once joined together in one original land mass that finally split up and slowly drifted apart . Suppose we take the continental drift ...
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... move very little with the current or wind . At the surface they would be rigged also with radar reflectors , and near the surface with underwater buoys , which would bounce back the " pings " of a sonar transducer on the barge ...
... move very little with the current or wind . At the surface they would be rigged also with radar reflectors , and near the surface with underwater buoys , which would bounce back the " pings " of a sonar transducer on the barge ...
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... move from the time it left port until the motors are cut off in a dry or floating dock at the end of a voyage . Modern efforts to make submarine machinery more nearly silent are being tested , but the whole concept of a ship that must move ...
... move from the time it left port until the motors are cut off in a dry or floating dock at the end of a voyage . Modern efforts to make submarine machinery more nearly silent are being tested , but the whole concept of a ship that must move ...
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