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Title Comment Keywords
The Sea Floor 30 minutes / n.a. "mid-oceanic ridge", submersible, crust, topography, nodule, manganese, "sea floor", life
Mapping the Sea Floor 13:06 - 14:03 (00:57) / 0.9 MB "echo sounding", topography, "James Sadd"
Acoustical Mapping of the Sea Floor 14:03 - 14:28 (00:25) / 0.4 MB topography, "James Sadd"
Digitized Bits of Information 16:59 - 17:37 (00:38) / 0.4 MB data, computer, topography, "James V. Gardner", "Greg Gable"
Topography of the Sea Floor 09:59 - 11:06 (01:07) / 0.7 MB "Harry H. Hess", technology, fathometer, depth, Princeton, topography, "sea floor", guyot, "wave erosion", "mid-oceanic ridge"
Sea Floor Spreading 04:35 - 05:33 (00:58) / 0.5 MB "plate tectonics", "oceanic crust", crust, magma, volcano, "divergent plate", "mid-oceanic ridge", rift, "sea floor spreading", plate, topography, orogeny, collision, "deep-sea trench", subduction
Seamounts 22:09 - 23:16 (01:07) / 0.8 MB "Tanya L. Atwater", topography, "sea floor", seamount, "volcanic cone", "hot spot", volcano, "lava flow", plate, Hawaii, island, Aleutians, "Pacific Plate"
The Rising Crust 21:07 - 22:10 (01:03) / 1.0 MB mountain, orogeny, erosion, uplift, mantle, crust, topography, isostasy
Rockslides 18:29 - 19:18 (00:49) / 1.4 MB "mass wasting", "rockslide", mudflow, "debris slide", mountain, slope, road, base, topography, valley, movement, "rock avalanche"
Grand Canyon 01:22 - 02:31 (01:09) / 1.1 MB "James Sadd", "Grand Canyon", "John Wesley Powell", geology, "sedimentary rock", "Colorado River", landscape, "geologic time", "geologic history", "mineral composition", "grain size", "grain shape", structure, "rock color", climate, "vegetation pattern", shoreline, topography, "Earth's surface", sediment
Water Table 07:36 - 08:30 (00:54) / 1.6 MB geologist, "Earth's surface", groundwater, "saturated zone", "unsaturated zone", well, "water table", topography, "surface water"
Desertification 18:16 - 19:00 (00:44) / 1.6 MB "James Sadd", desert, climate, topography, "plate tectonics", forest, prairie, grassland, humans, desertification, environment
Transportation Agent 08:59 - 10:05 (01:06) / 2.3 MB "J. Lawford Anderson", "glacial advance", "glacial retreat", glacier, "glacial ice", "glacial melt", "glacial flow", rock, silt, "mechanical weathering", bedrock, erosion, "glacial polish", topography, stream, snout
Bathymetry n.a. / n.a. bathymetry, "water depth", "sea level", depth, elevation, topography, salinity, temperature, travel-time
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