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... IV. SMALL OCEAN BASINS Small ocean basins, comprising mediterranean and marginal seas, form a class of structures which appear to be intermediate in character between continents and ocean basins.
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... Diapiric structures have been found in large numbers in the deepest parts of the Gulf of Mexico and the Balearic Basin of the Mediterranean. Recent JOIDES drilling has shown that the diapirs of the Sigsbee Deep in the Gulf of Mexico are salt domes and that the adjacent sediments bear o i l .
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