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Title	Comment	Keywords
Mountains Rose from the Seas mountains,	07:49 - 08:41 (00:52) / 1.1 MB	sedimentation, "sedimentary rock", "sea floor", "James Hutton", "J. Lawford Anderson", sediment, orogeny
Composition of the Ocean Crust	11:57 - 12:43 (00:46) / 0.9 MB	crust, magmatism, mantle, basalt, "igneous rock", metamorphism, sedimentation, deformation, melting, mountain, orogeny, deposition, basin, "proto-ocean crust", granite, "Jason Saleeby"
Original Horizontality	01:49 - 03:08 (01:19) / 1.3 MB	"Nicholas Steno", "Principle of Original Horizontality", deformation, strata, sedimentation
Conditions of Metamorphism	04:19 - 05:00 (00:41) / 0.8 MB	"Douglas M. Morton", metamorphism, weathering, sedimentation, "sedimentary rock", temperature, pressure, melting, "igneous rock", "Earth's surface"
River Model	18:56 - 20:29 (01:33) / 2.6 MB	river, "U.S. Army Corps of Engineers", "Red Eye Crossing", "river channel", WES, "Waterways Experiment Station", dredge, modeling, discharge, "bed load", "flow pattern", "point bar", mapping, sedimentation

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