The Landscapes of the Ocean Floors


	The Landscapes of the Ocean Floors

celestialdancer

8-12-2009 5:31 PM

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8-13-2009 8:55 PM

chestnut501

I never really thought about it before but there could be some really neat gems and minerals down there. There could be all kinds of neat stuff down there.

8-13-2009 11:35 PM

celestialdancer

Yeah

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<B>August 7, 2009</B>--The seas off the <A href="http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/places/countries/country_bahamas.html" linkindex="60">Bahamas</A> can seem like a swimming pool, but strip away the ocean (illustration at top), and the edges of the islands' shallow Great Bahama Bank--where the light blue begins to turn dark in satellite images of the Caribbean--are revealed to be steep cliffs rising some 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) above a vast plain.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/08/photogalleries/drain-the-ocean-pictures/index.html"><DIV>By comparison, <A href="http://traveler.nationalgeographic.com/national-parks/yosemite" linkindex="61">Yosemite National Park</A>'s nearly 5,000-foot-tall (1,520-meter) <A href="http://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/halfdome.htm" linkindex="62">Half Dome</A> (bottom) is a molehill.
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