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USGS CMG InfoBank Geology School: Atlantic Ocean


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Title	Comment	Keywords
Submarine Canyons	06:11 - 06:56 (00:45) / 0.5 MB	"submarine canyon", "Atlantic Ocean", "Pacific Ocean", fan, "Tanya L. Atwater"
Early Investigations of Coastlines	02:15 - 02:46 (00:31) / 0.7 MB	"plate tectonics", Europe, "Atlantic Ocean", Africa, "South America"
Continental Drift	02:46 - 03:44 (00:58) / 0.5 MB	"Alfred Wegener", "Robert Douglas", "continental drift", "Atlantic Ocean", Africa, "South America", continent
Rifts Split Continents	04:01 - 04:35 (00:34) / 0.3 MB	Africa, continent, rift, "divergent plate", landscape, crust, "Saudi Arabia", "Red Sea", valley, "Gulf of Aden", ocean, "Atlantic Ocean", "plate tectonics"

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