. The Earth beneath the sea : History . 98 97 96 95 94 93 92 91 90 89 88 87 86 85 84 83 82 81 Fig. 11. Chart of the physiographic provinces of the Gulf of Mexico showing the location of the Sigsbee Abyssal Plain. The floor of the eastern Gulf of Mexico is dominated by the Mississippi Cone. Turbidity currents originating at the mouth of the Mississippi have built the large Mississippi Cone and the Sigsbee Abyssal Plain. (After Ewing, Ericson and Heezen, 1958.) Abyssal Plain. The Balearic Abyssal Plain seems to be fed predominantly from the north. It apparently spreads out from the foot of the R

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. The Earth beneath the sea : History . 98 97 96 95 94 93 92 91 90 89 88 87 86 85 84 83 82 81 Fig. 11. Chart of the physiographic provinces of the Gulf of Mexico showing the location of the Sigsbee Abyssal Plain. The floor of the eastern Gulf of Mexico is dominated by the Mississippi Cone. Turbidity currents originating at the mouth of the Mississippi have built the large Mississippi Cone and the Sigsbee Abyssal Plain. (After Ewing, Ericson and Heezen, 1958.) Abyssal Plain. The Balearic Abyssal Plain seems to be fed predominantly from the north. It apparently spreads out from the foot of the Rhone Abyssal Cone. However, the plain is probably also fed from the south, as indicated by the numerous submarine canyons of the Algerian continental slope and by the events associated with the Orleansville earthcjuake (Heezen and Ewing, 1955). The area of the Balearic Abyssal Plain probably exceeds 30,000 mi^. A small abyssal plain is found in the center of the nearly circular Tyrrhenian Sea. Many small abyssal hills ])rotrude from this abyssal plain. In the eastern

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