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Page 176
... SEDIMENTS The ocean basin floor is everywhere covered by sediments of different types and origins . The only exception are the crests of the spreading centres where new ocean floor has not existed long enough to accumulate a sediment ...
... SEDIMENTS The ocean basin floor is everywhere covered by sediments of different types and origins . The only exception are the crests of the spreading centres where new ocean floor has not existed long enough to accumulate a sediment ...
Page 177
... sediments . These sediments are carried by icebergs from the continent as far north as the Antarc- tic Convergence at 45 ° to 55 ° latitude . Biogenic oozes are pelagic sediments that have more than 30 percent skeletal material . They ...
... sediments . These sediments are carried by icebergs from the continent as far north as the Antarc- tic Convergence at 45 ° to 55 ° latitude . Biogenic oozes are pelagic sediments that have more than 30 percent skeletal material . They ...
Page 183
... sediments composed chiefly of quartz and clay minerals derived from erosion of the continent ) may be covered with carbonate sediments . In some cases , as in the islands of The Bahamas , the carbonate shelf , called a bank , is cut off ...
... sediments composed chiefly of quartz and clay minerals derived from erosion of the continent ) may be covered with carbonate sediments . In some cases , as in the islands of The Bahamas , the carbonate shelf , called a bank , is cut off ...
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NUMBER GAMES and Other Mathematical Recreations | 1 |
NUMBER THEORY | 14 |
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS | 38 |
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