The Floors of the Ocean: 1. The North Atlantic: Text to accompany the physiographic diagram of the North AtlanticHeezen, Bruce C.
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The Floors of the Ocean: 1. The North Atlantic: Text to accompany the physiographic diagram of the North Atlantic
Heezen, Bruce C.
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11. Two east-west profiles of Southeast Newfoundland Ridge 22
12. Laurentian Channel 23
13. Eastern Channel, Gulf of Maine 23
14. Submarine canyons off the Scotian Shelf 24
15. Continental-margin provinces: Type profile off northeastern
United States 26
16. Tracings of PDR records of continental and insular slopes 28
17. Cross sections of Hudson Submarine Canyon 32
18. Tracing of PDR record of Blake Escarpment 34
19. Continental-margin provinces: Type profiles off northwest
Africa 40
20. Georges Bank canyons 44
21. Two projected profiles of Georges Bank canyons 45
22. Geologic section at Cape Hatteras, Virginia 46
23. Correlation of structural benches off northeast United States 48
24. Geologic section: Western Europe based on refraction
measurements 49
25. Index chart, location of abyssal hill profiles illustrated
in Figures 26 and 27 62
26. Eleven profiles, Abyssal Hills Province, western Atlantic 62
27. Eight profiles, Abyssal Hills Province, eastern Atlantic 63
28. Tracing of PDR record, abyssal hills, southeast of
Bermuda Rise 64
29. Northwest Atlantic Mid-Ocean Canyon 67
30. Eight east-west profiles showing Northwest Atlantic
Mid-Ocean Canyon 68
31. Forty-eight cross sections of Northwest Atlantic
Mid-Ocean Canyon 69
32. Long profile of Northwest Atlantic Mid-Ocean Canyon 70
33. Tracing of PDR record across Theta Gap 73
34. Natural scale profile, Kelvin Seamounts 77
35. Crustal sections in various physiographic provinces,
determined by seismic-refraction measurements 81
36. Index to natural-scale Mid-Atlantic Ridge profiles
reproduced in Figures 37-41 84
37. Natural-scale Mid-Atlantic Ridge profile 1A 85
38. Natural-scale Mid-Atlantic Ridge profile 1B 86
39. Natural-scale Mid-Atlantic Ridge profile 1C 87
40. Natural-scale Mid-Atlantic Ridge profile 2A 88
41. Natural-scale Mid-Atlantic Ridge profile 2B 89
42. Type profile, provinces of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge 90
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