The Geological Society of America Special Paper 65 THE FLOORS OF THE OCEANS I. The North Atlantic Text to Accompany the Physiographic Diagram of the North Atlantic
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BY Bruce C. Heezen, Marie Tharp, and Maurice Ewing
Lamont Geological Observatory (Columbia University) Palisades, New York
April 11, 1959
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"Could the waters of the Atlantic be drawn off, so as to expose to view this great sea-gash, which separates continents, and extends from the Arctic to the Antarctic, it would present a scene the most rugged, grand, and imposing. The very ribs of the solid earth, with the foundations of the sea, would be brought to light, and we should have presented to us at one view the empty cradle of the ocean...." (M. F. Maury, The Physical Geography of the Sea, 1855.)