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Page 164
... continental glaciers covered all of Canada and much of the United States as far south as the Ohio and Missouri ... drift ( q.v. ) . Accordingly , the origin of the Dwyka and related tillites has been related to a single ice sheet of ...
... continental glaciers covered all of Canada and much of the United States as far south as the Ohio and Missouri ... drift ( q.v. ) . Accordingly , the origin of the Dwyka and related tillites has been related to a single ice sheet of ...
Page 471
... continental drift . The continental shelf of the Gulf of Guinea is almost uniformly narrow , widening to as much as 100 miles only from Sierra Leone to the Bijagós Archipelago , Por- tuguese Guinea , and in the Bight of Biafra . The ...
... continental drift . The continental shelf of the Gulf of Guinea is almost uniformly narrow , widening to as much as 100 miles only from Sierra Leone to the Bijagós Archipelago , Por- tuguese Guinea , and in the Bight of Biafra . The ...
Page 487
... Drift NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN Florida Antilles Current North Equatorial Current ... continental slope beyond the edge of the shelf . Velocities gradually ... Continental Shelf Off Eastern North America Between Newfoundland and Florida ( 1965 ) ...
... Drift NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN Florida Antilles Current North Equatorial Current ... continental slope beyond the edge of the shelf . Velocities gradually ... Continental Shelf Off Eastern North America Between Newfoundland and Florida ( 1965 ) ...
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