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<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:contributor>John S. Schlee</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>John A. Grow</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>A.W. Bally</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>Kim D. Klitgord</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>1987</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Georges Bank is a shallow part of the Atlantic continental shelf southeast of New England (Emery and Uchupi, 1972, 1984). This bank, however, is merely the upper surface of several sedimentary basins overlying a block-faulted basement of igneous and metamorphic crystalline rock. Sedimentary rock forms a seaward-thickening cover that has accumulated in one main depocenter and several ancillary depressions, adjacent to shallow basement platforms of paleozoic and older crystalline rock. Georges Bank basin contains a thickness of sedimentary rock greater than 10 km, whereas the basement platforms that flank the basin are areas of thin sediment accumulation (less than 5 km).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>American Association of Petroleum Geologists</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>Passive margins: U.S. Geological Survey Line 19 across the Georges Bank basin</dc:title>
  <dc:type>chapter</dc:type>
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