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• San Francisco
  ...Peninsula], with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ocean Pacific Ocean] to the west, San Francisco Bay to the east, and the Golden Gate to the nor ...orld War II, San Francisco was the send-off point for many soldiers to the Pacific Theater. After the war, the confluence of returning servicemen, massive imm
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• Remoteness
  ...bility], defined as the place on the continent that is farthest from any [[ocean]]. Of these continental points, the most remote is the Eurasian Pole of Ina ....[13] If adopted, this would place the final EPIA roughly 130 km closer to ocean than currently agreed upon.
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• Lei
  ...8th to 14th centuries. During this period of expansion, nā lei across the Pacific were very similar; however, during its subsequent period of isolation, Hawa
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• 58:5 The Continental Drift
  ...the [[land]] masses. Again, if the continents were not lighter than the [[ocean]] beds, [[gravity]] would draw the edges of the [[oceans]] up onto the [[la ...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continents continents] to slide toward the [[ocean]] beds.
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• 57:8 Crustal Stabilization-The Age of Earthquakes-The World Ocean and The First Continent
  ...ere then in play much as they are now [[observed]], but this [[primitive]] ocean was not [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_water salty]; it was practicall ...ly depressed. The first continental [[land]] mass emerged from the world [[ocean]] in compensatory [[adjustment]] of the [[equilibrium]] of the [[gradually]
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• 60:1 The Early Reptilian Age
  ...sits vary in thickness from 3,000 to 10,000 feet, even being 18,000 on the Pacific coast. Lava was later forced in between many of these layers. The [https:// ...and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Cordillera_%28North_America%29 Pacific coasts]. The great [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_Connecticut ea
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• Prison worlds
  [[File:lighterstill.jpg]][[File:Pacific-ocean-platform-prison.jpg|right|frame]]
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• 2003-04-25-That Antediluvian World
  ...ng [[islands]] in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ocean Pacific Ocean], and huge areas of tropical vegetation): "...we are both [[learning]] here ...ns of this [[time]]. The 'pictures' that you are shown were of the Pacific Ocean's islands, yes, as they existed some thirteen thousand years ago -- that an
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• Oscillation
  ...sea over the present Rocky Mountain] region, with an outlet to the Pacific Ocean through northern California. Coal continued to be laid down throughout the
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• 59:4 The Great Land-Emergence Stage-The Vegetative Land-Life Period-The Age of the Fishes
  ...of_North_America North American inland sea] found an outlet to the Pacific Ocean through northern California. ...s partially overspread by [[seas]] having simultaneous connection with the Pacific, Atlantic, Arctic, and Gulf waters. The deposits of these later stages of t
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• 2012-09-23-Of Past and Future
  ...you, Chief ABC-22, and Primary Midwayer Andrea, were our companions on the ocean journey from Japan to South America. ...or from any of the tropical archipellagos that dotted the Southern Pacific Ocean, and whose beautiful islands were slowly reduced in size until almost all o
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• 61:3 The Modern Mountain Stage-Age of The Elephant and The Horse
  ...was connected with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian Ocean Indian Ocean][https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variscan_orogeny], while at the close of thi .../Pacific_Coast Pacific coast] remained warmer than at present. The great [[ocean]] currents were in [[function]] and affected [[climate]] much as they do to
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• 59:1 Early Marine-Life in the Shallow Seas-The Trilobite Age
  ...ntains, or rather high elevations of [[land]], rose along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, over the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Indies West Indies], a ...few million years the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ocean Pacific Ocean] began to [[invade]] the [[American]] continents. The sinking of the [[land
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• 60:3 The Cretaceous Stage-The Flowering-Plant Period-The Age of Birds
  ...ion on the deep floor of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_ocean Pacific]. This [[contention]] of geologic [[forces]] gave impetus to the formation ...tain [[Summit|peaks]], merely elevated land ridges of great width. Now the Pacific coast range was beginning to elevate, but it was located seven hundred mile
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• Marooned
  ...rusoe_Island Juan Fernández Island] off the coast of Chile, in the Pacific Ocean. Selkirk, a sailor with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dampier
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• 59:5 The Crustal-Shifting Stage-The Fern-Forest Carboniferous Period-The Age of Frogs
  ...rica] was inundated, creating two great inland seas. Both the Atlantic and Pacific coastal highlands were situated just beyond the present shore lines. These ...d down due to the shifting sea level occasioned by [[activities]] on the [[ocean]] bottoms. This [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_crust crustal unea
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• Iceberg
  ...s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Island Scott Island], in the South Pacific Ocean, by the USS Glacier on November 12, 1956. This iceberg was larger than Belg
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• Surfing
  ...arding paddleboarding]. Although, another prominent form of surfing in the ocean today includes [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodyboarding bodyboarding], w
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• 59:2 The First Continental Flood Stage-The Invertebrate-Animal Age
  ...y Mountain] regions, but near the close of this [[epoch]] the Atlantic and Pacific coasts again began to sink.
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• 2014-05-13-The Flurry 18
  North American Plate to the East), is riding over the Pacific Plate to the west without forcing the Pacific Plate to dive toward the earth’s core.
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