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Earth's oceans
ocean zonation
Earth
Major features of the ocean basins
hydrologic cycle
Boundaries of the world's oceans and seas
hypsographic curve
continental margin
global sea surface height change, 1993–2008
seafloor spreading
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Jacques Cousteau
Jacques Cousteau
French ocean explorer and engineer
Charles William Peach
English naturalist and geologist
C. Wyville Thomson, 1877.
Sir C. Wyville Thomson
Scottish naturalist
Addison Emery Verrill
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