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Page 92
... continental - severe , snow - starved winters and hot , arid summers . To the northwest of the Altai - Sayan mountains extend three nearly parallel ranges : the Salair Ridge , Vostochny Sayan ( Eastern Sa- yan ) , and Kuznets Altau . In ...
... continental - severe , snow - starved winters and hot , arid summers . To the northwest of the Altai - Sayan mountains extend three nearly parallel ranges : the Salair Ridge , Vostochny Sayan ( Eastern Sa- yan ) , and Kuznets Altau . In ...
Page 459
... continental interiors and continental shelves . A spectrum of deepwater facies , extending from below the depth of penetration of sunlight and wave en- ergy to abyssal depths of thousands of metres , is encoun- tered on present - day ...
... continental interiors and continental shelves . A spectrum of deepwater facies , extending from below the depth of penetration of sunlight and wave en- ergy to abyssal depths of thousands of metres , is encoun- tered on present - day ...
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... continental positions and sediment sources . The relatively uniform sheet of platform mudstone covering North Africa , Turkey , and the bulk of Europe west of the U.S.S.R. , considered together with the shoreline extending across Africa ...
... continental positions and sediment sources . The relatively uniform sheet of platform mudstone covering North Africa , Turkey , and the bulk of Europe west of the U.S.S.R. , considered together with the shoreline extending across Africa ...
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