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  • benioff zone

    a long narrow region, usually adjacent to a continent, along which earthquake foci lie on a plane which dips downwards at about 45° and along which the oceanic lithosphere is thought to be descending into the earth's interior

  • cocos plate

    a tectonic division of the earth's crust, coincident with the oceanic Guatemala Basin, and bounded on the north and east by the Central American Trench, on the west by the East Pacific Rise, and on the south by the Nazca Plate.

  • crust

    The crust on a loaf of bread is the outside part.

  • echograph

    a device that records oceanic depths by means of sonic waves.

  • epipelagic

    Of, pertaining to, or inhabiting the water from the surface of the sea down to 200 metres.

  • fulmar

    any of certain oceanic birds of the petrel family, especially Fulmarus glacialis, a gull-like Arctic species.
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