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hypsographic curve
continental margin
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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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