. The Earth beneath the sea : History. Ocean bottom; Marine geophysics. 208 BtTLLARD AND MASON [chap. 10 this bank has yielded a variety of metamor|)hic and sedimentary rocks; many of these are erratics, but it is beheved that some of the Hmestones are in place and it seems probable that the bank is to be regarded as a part of the continent separated from the mainland by faulting. Islands with great thicknesses of coral also show less marked anomalies than those composed throughout of basalt. Fig. 25 shows a map of Eniwetok Island which has a range of anomaly of only a few hundred gammas. It i
. The Earth beneath the sea : History. Ocean bottom; Marine geophysics. 208 BtTLLARD AND MASON [chap. 10 this bank has yielded a variety of metamor|)hic and sedimentary rocks; many of these are erratics, but it is beheved that some of the Hmestones are in place and it seems probable that the bank is to be regarded as a part of the continent separated from the mainland by faulting. Islands with great thicknesses of coral also show less marked anomalies than those composed throughout of basalt. Fig. 25 shows a map of Eniwetok Island which has a range of anomaly of only a few hundred gammas. It is rare that sufficient is known about the form and susceptibility of the rocks of a seamount for any meaningful comparison to be made between the 30*40'N. 30*4tfN. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hill, M. N. (Maurice Neville), 1919-. New York : Interscience Pub.
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