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the avg salinity of ocean water is
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35%
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what early group of ocean-going people were able to traverse vast areas of ocean far from visual contact with the land?
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Island peoples of the southwest pacific ocean
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the activity of turbidity currents results in
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submarine canyons and fans
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lithospheric plates move horizontally past each other along
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transform faults
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the ultimate key to the discovery of the process of sea-floor spreading was
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magnetic reversals in basalt
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the theory of drifting continents was proposed by
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alfred wegener
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Iceland occurs
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on a mid-ocean ridge
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most of the youngest seafloor basalts are found
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in and near the rift valleys of the mid-ocean ridges
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latitude is given in degrees
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north and south of the equator
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magnetic stripes on the sea floor are created at
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spreading centers at mid-ocean ridges
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