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Seismic Reflection 03:49 - 04:38 (00:49) / 0.6 MB "seismic wave", seismograph, "seismic reflection", travel-time, depth
Depths of the Oceans 03:54 - 04:27 (00:33) / 0.4 MB crust, granite, basalt, depth
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"
Depth of Convection 17:34 - 18:18 (00:44) / 0.4 MB mantle, convection, "single convection cell", "sea floor spreading", modeling, "boundary layer", theory, seismic, "plate tectonics", depth
Upper and Lower Mantle 18:18 - 19:53 (01:35) / 1.0 MB "Don L. Anderson", mantle, plate, subduction, "Pacific Ocean", earthquake, depth, seismic, convection, viscosity, "mid-oceanic ridge", basalt, lithosphere, "plate tectonics"
Beams of Electrons 16:33 - 17:33 (01:00) / 0.9 MB "J. Lawford Anderson", electrons, "laboratory analysis", "thin section", "chemical composition", mineral, rock, pressure, depth, granite, "rock origin", "Whipple Mountains", crust, "rock age", magma
Depth and Pressure 19:00 - 19:45 (00:45) / 0.8 MB "J. Lawford Anderson", "covalent bond", carbon, atom, diamond, graphite, "layered crystal structure", pressure, depth, mantle
Water Surface 03:59 - 04:47 (00:48) / 0.8 MB water, "circular orbit", wave, "wave base", depth, wavelength, crest, "wave height"
Bathymetry n.a. / n.a. bathymetry, "water depth", "sea level", depth, elevation, topography, salinity, temperature, travel-time
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