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    "tag": 12760,
    "title": "Digital data for sediment thickness in the deep-sea basins of the Pacific continental margin based on 1984 surveys",
    "pubdate": "2015",
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    "issue": null,
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    "descript": "Contours of sediment thickness for the deep-sea basins of the Pacific continental margin offshore of Washington, Oregon, and California were were interpreted from GLORIA (Paskevich and others, 2011) sidescan imagery and related seismic-reflection data and were published as maps in paper format (Gardner and others, 1992, 1993a, 1993b).",
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    "originator": [
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            "name": "Grim, Muriel S.",
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        {
            "name": "Wong, Florence L.",
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            "scope": "Representation, usually on a flat surface, of a part or whole of the Earth or other parts of the universe.  Collections of maps linked digitally or bound together in a book are called atlases."
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            "name": "seismic reflection methods",
            "scope": "Geophysical technique to study the subsurface of the earth using sound waves induced by explosives, vibrating devices, or percussive equipment.  The reflections of the sound waves from the boundaries of different rocks are measured."
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            "name": "stratigraphic thickness",
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