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Page 110
... continental margins to form the major mountain systems ; and that the island arcs ( q.v. ) of the western Pacific are festoons that dragged behind as Asia moved westward away from them . In order to explain the distribution of ...
... continental margins to form the major mountain systems ; and that the island arcs ( q.v. ) of the western Pacific are festoons that dragged behind as Asia moved westward away from them . In order to explain the distribution of ...
Page 115
... continental slope 2 3 km mi Blake. on a wide variety of approaches to paleoclimatology ; G.D. GARLAND ( ed . ) , Continental Drift ( 1966 ) , a short review of current ideas on drift followed by evidence from the Arctic and eastern ...
... continental slope 2 3 km mi Blake. on a wide variety of approaches to paleoclimatology ; G.D. GARLAND ( ed . ) , Continental Drift ( 1966 ) , a short review of current ideas on drift followed by evidence from the Arctic and eastern ...
Page 116
... continental slope at one point . Similar structures of great- er age overlap each other and have disappeared by sub- sidence and marine attack . Thin sediments have contrib- uted to the construction of the continental terrace off ...
... continental slope at one point . Similar structures of great- er age overlap each other and have disappeared by sub- sidence and marine attack . Thin sediments have contrib- uted to the construction of the continental terrace off ...
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