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The Ocean Floor

The Floors of the Oceans

1: The North Atlantic. Text to Accompany the Physiographic Diagram of the North Atlantic. By Bruce C. Heezen, Marie Tharp, and Maurice Ewing. (Geological Society of America Special Paper 65.) Pp. xii + 122 + 30 plates. (New York: Geological Society of America, 1959.) 4.50 dollars. Physiographic Diagram 1.50 dollars.

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DEACON, G. The Ocean Floor. Nature 191, 531–532 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/191531a0

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