The Floors of the Ocean

About this eBook

Author

Tharp, Marie, 1920-2006

Title

The Floors of the Ocean: 1. The North Atlantic Text to accompany the physiographic diagram of the North Atlantic

Credits

Produced by Richard Tonsing, Juliet Sutherland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

GC: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Oceanography

Subject

Ocean bottom

Category

Text

eBook-No.

49069

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49069

Release Date

May 29, 2015

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.The Geological Society of America Special Paper 65 THE FLOORS OF THE OCEANS I. The North Atlantic Text to Accompany the Physiographic Diagram of the North Atlantic
3. 3.FOREWORD — NOTE
4. 4.ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
5. 5.CONTENTS
6. 6.ILLUSTRATIONS — PLATES — FIGURES — TABLES
7. 7.ABSTRACT
8. 8.PART 1. PREPARATION OF THE PHYSIOGRAPHIC DIAGRAM
9. 9.PART 2. PHYSIOGRAPHIC PROVINCES — INTRODUCTION — NOMENCLATURE AND CLASSIFICATION OF DEEP-SEA RELIEF — UNITS OF DEPTH AND SLOPE — CONTINENT AND OCEAN
10. 10.CONTINENTAL MARGIN — DEFINITION AND GENERAL CATEGORIES — REGIONAL DESCRIPTION OF CONTINENTAL MARGIN — BENCHES AND TERRACES OF THE CONTINENTAL MARGIN — GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS OF CONTINENTAL MARGIN PHYSIOGRAPHIC PROVINCES
11. 11.OCEAN-BASIN FLOOR — GENERAL DESCRIPTION — ABYSSAL PLAINS — ABYSSAL HILLS — OTHER MAJOR FEATURES OF THE ABYSSAL FLOOR — OCEANIC RISES — SEAMOUNTS OF THE OCEAN-BASIN FLOOR — SEISMICITY OF THE OCEAN-BASIN FLOOR — OCEAN-BASIN FLOOR PROVINCES AND CRUSTAL STRUCTURE
12. 12.MID-OCEANIC RIDGE — DEFINITION — MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE — PROVINCES OF THE MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE — GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS OF MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE PHYSIOGRAPHIC PROVINCES — SUB-BOTTOM REFLECTIONS RECORDED ON PRECISION DEPTH RECORDER RECORDS AND PHYSIOGRAPHIC PROVINCES — SUMMARY OF PROVINCE CHARACTERISTICS
13. 13.BIBLIOGRAPHY
14. 14.AUTHOR INDEX — SUBJECT INDEX
15. 15.Transcriber's Notes:

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