Geological Oceanography

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Across
  1. 2. are the organisms that live in the ocean bottom
  2. 5. plate boundary formed when plates move away from one another
  3. 9. study of marine sediments
  4. 12. caused by Magma moving beneath the surface of the Earth
  5. 14. waves bend nearly parallel to shore
  6. 16. shoreline below sea level
  7. 20. physical barrier between sea and land
  8. 21. plate boundary formed when plates move towards one another
  9. 22. location that is directly above the focus of an earthquake
  10. 24. chemical reactions in the water
  11. 26. Water returns to Ocean
  12. 27. dangers of the deep
  13. 28. foreshore + berm
  14. 30. from outer space
  15. 31. body of permeable rock that can contain or transmit groundwater
  16. 32. skeletons of marine creatures
Down
  1. 1. zone in the ocean bottom
  2. 3. zone located at elevations below 6000 m
  3. 4. structure for a navigation channel
  4. 6. plates splitting away or breaking apart
  5. 7. is an increase in the level of the world's oceans
  6. 8. wetlands that form as rivers empty their water and sediment
  7. 10. caused by the shifting of the Earth's plates
  8. 11. shoreline above sea level
  9. 13. boundary between shore and coast
  10. 15. can occur when large amounts of groundwater are withdrawn
  11. 17. above the normal high-water mark to the coastline
  12. 18. device for taking samples of sediments
  13. 19. German physicist with a theory of plate tectonics
  14. 23. where one plate dips beneath another
  15. 25. underwater mountain range formed by diverging plate boundary in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean
  16. 29. zone of sufficient light for photosynthesis