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from article Convection in the Earth
Pattern of magnetic stripes over the Reykjanes Ridge southwest of Iceland. (After J. R. Heirtzler, X. LePichon, and J. G. Baron, Magnetic anomalies over the Reykjanes Ridge, Deep Sea Res., 13:427, 1966)
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Geographic setting of the Kurile Trench off the Kamchatka Peninsula, showing the deep ocean trench and the characteristic line of volcanoes in the vicinity of the subduction zone. The sections A′ and B′ illustrate the bathymetry normal to the trench…
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Characteristic variation of heat flow and bathymetry. (a) Variation of surface heat flow as a function of age of the ocean floor in millions of years before present for the Pacific, South Atlantic, and Indian oceans. (b) Variation of sea-floor…
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Global seismicity showing surface projections of all earthquakes which occurred during 1965–1975 with magnitudes in the range 4.5–5.5. Plate boundaries are located along the seams marked by high frequency of earthquake occurrence.
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Map of global tectonic and volcanic activity over the past million years. (After The Physical World, National Geographic Society, Van der Grinten projection, 1975)
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Vertical distribution of phosphate (PO43−) at three stations to show a range of characteristics found in major oceanic regions. North Atlantic is from a region in the central North Atlantic northeast of Bermuda and North Pacific is from the central…
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Vertical distribution of total carbon dioxide concentrations at locations in the North Atlantic and North Pacific. Below depths of a few hundred meters, the distributions are generally characteristic of fairly large regions in the two oceans.
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Layers in seawater in a section through the Atlantic Ocean from the Greenland Sea (right) to the Weddell Sea (left). The thick line represents depth. (a) Potential temperature; contour values are in °C (°F). (b) Salinity; contours are in parts per…
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Layers in seawater in a section through the western Indian Ocean from India (right) to Antarctica (left). The thick line represents depth. (a) Potential temperature; contour values are in °C (°F). (b) Salinity; contours are in parts per thousand.
