Archive image from page 243 of The depths of the ocean. The depths of the ocean : a general account of the modern science of oceanography based largely on the scientific researches of the Norwegian steamer Michael Sars in the North Atlantic depthsofoceangen00murr Year: 1912 AO 80 —I— 120 6 //YCHES 160 MM. Fig. 50.—Diagrams drawn to scale showing positions OF Stones embedded in the deposit, the shaded PARTS indicating THE PORTIONS PROJECTING ABOVE THE DEPOSIT. distributed by floating ice. At Station 3 ('Knight Errant'), at a depth of 318 feet, many dead shells of shallow-water habitat were got

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Archive image from page 243 of The depths of the ocean. The depths of the ocean : a general account of the modern science of oceanography based largely on the scientific researches of the Norwegian steamer Michael Sars in the North Atlantic depthsofoceangen00murr Year: 1912 AO 80 —I— 120 6 //YCHES 160 MM. Fig. 50.—Diagrams drawn to scale showing positions OF Stones embedded in the deposit, the shaded PARTS indicating THE PORTIONS PROJECTING ABOVE THE DEPOSIT. distributed by floating ice. At Station 3 ('Knight Errant'), at a depth of 318 feet, many dead shells of shallow-water habitat were got, which clearly indicate a subsidence of the sea-floor since the glacial period. The absence of raised beaches in Orkney and Shetland, the submerged peat-mosses,

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