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ocean basin
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ocean basin [′ō·shən ′bā·sən]
(geology)
The great depression occupied by the ocean on the surface of the lithosphere.


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This research illustrates the vast potential of genetic analyses to uncover the mysteries of how humpbacks travel and form populations in the southern ocean basins," he added.
The first two chapters review the history of ocean research and describe the fundamental structure of the Earth's interior and its exterior ocean basins.
If, overall, ocean basins continue to drop as expected, 80 million years from now sea levels will have dropped another 120 m, exposing vast swaths of continental shelf (dark green areas, bottom map), Muller and his colleagues report in the March 7 Science.
 
 
 
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