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The Ocean Floor
Objectives
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 After reading, studying, and discussing Chapter 12, you should be able to:
- Describe the extent of the world ocean.
- Describe the features associated with both passive and active continental margins.
- List and describe the major topographic units of the ocean basin floor.
- Discuss the general structure of mid-ocean ridges.
- Describe how each of the three broad categories of seafloor sediments originates and the association between seafloor sediments and climate change.
- List several resources obtained from the seafloor.
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