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Page 109
However, his view that the oceans are fault valleys floored by sunken continents
is clearly incompatible with drift. ... Fisher proposed that the Pacific Ocean Basin
is the scar produced by this event and that the other oceans were formed as rifts ...
However, his view that the oceans are fault valleys floored by sunken continents
is clearly incompatible with drift. ... Fisher proposed that the Pacific Ocean Basin
is the scar produced by this event and that the other oceans were formed as rifts ...
Page 112
Marine sediment less than 200,- 000,000 years old From "The Origin of the
Oceans," by Sir Edward Bullard. sopteris flora ... Their present distribution,
however, would require them to have crossed vast expanses of open ocean.
Vertebrate ...
Marine sediment less than 200,- 000,000 years old From "The Origin of the
Oceans," by Sir Edward Bullard. sopteris flora ... Their present distribution,
however, would require them to have crossed vast expanses of open ocean.
Vertebrate ...
Page 119
An episode of erosion followed at the close of the Mesozoic, and this resulted in
turbidite deposition in the deep ocean and an unconformity within the terrace with
respect to the later Tertiary sediment. The northern and western margin of Iberia ...
An episode of erosion followed at the close of the Mesozoic, and this resulted in
turbidite deposition in the deep ocean and an unconformity within the terrace with
respect to the later Tertiary sediment. The northern and western margin of Iberia ...
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