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World map highlighting major features of the ocean basins, including trenches, ridges, basins, and plateaus labeled throughout the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Arctic Oceans. Continents are shown with shaded terrain, and prominent undersea features such as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Mariana Trench, and Kerguelen Plateau are marked across the map. gravity map of Earth's oceans A world map uses color bands to show the age of Earth's oceanic crust in millions of years, with red marking the youngest crust along mid-ocean ridges and blue representing the oldest crust farther from spreading centers.
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Deleted Web site: Geosciences LibreTexts - Assembling a Continent. Dec 05, 2025
Add new Web site: Geosciences LibreTexts - Assembling a Continent. May 15, 2023
Add new Web site: Canadian Encyclopedia - Ocean. Oct 15, 2022
Deleted duplicate media. Sep 02, 2016
Add new Web site: Tulane University - Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences - The Ocean Basins. Apr 22, 2016
New article added. Oct 08, 2009
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