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... plain is more than 100 miles wide near the U.S. border but tapers toward the south . North of Tampico , an outlier of the Sierra Madre Oriental reaches the sea and interrupts the continuity of the Gulf Coastal Plain . South from there the ...
... plain is more than 100 miles wide near the U.S. border but tapers toward the south . North of Tampico , an outlier of the Sierra Madre Oriental reaches the sea and interrupts the continuity of the Gulf Coastal Plain . South from there the ...
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... plain limestones are quite restricted in vol- ume and age in the geologic record for a number of reasons . First of all , abyssal plain sequences are less likely to be incorporated into the orogenic belts that develop as continental ...
... plain limestones are quite restricted in vol- ume and age in the geologic record for a number of reasons . First of all , abyssal plain sequences are less likely to be incorporated into the orogenic belts that develop as continental ...
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... Plain in the northwest , the Akhdar Mountains in the northeast , and the Saharan plateau , oc- cupying much of the rest of the country . The Al - Jifarah Plain covers about 10,000 square miles of Libya's northwestern corner . It rises ...
... Plain in the northwest , the Akhdar Mountains in the northeast , and the Saharan plateau , oc- cupying much of the rest of the country . The Al - Jifarah Plain covers about 10,000 square miles of Libya's northwestern corner . It rises ...
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