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Show THE PACIFIC OCEAN'S FLOOR. What Would Be Revealed if Water Were Drained Off. Iesllo's Weekly says: If the waters of the Pacific could be drained there would be revealed a vast stretch of territory, comprising enormous pla; teaus, great valleys for which no parallels par-allels exist on the land surface, lofty mountains beside which the Himalaya and the Andes would look like hillocks and tremendous hollows or basins only to be compared with those on the face of the moon. While there are great mountains and huge basins or deeps, the plateau areas are by far the most extensive. Relatively Rela-tively speaking, the floor of the Pacific Pa-cific is now ai last revealed on the plateau areas in level. There are undulations un-dulations and depressions, but the general gen-eral area is about the same depth below be-low the surface. Soundings develop a mean depth of from 2,500 to 2,700 fathoms. In shoaler spots there is a mean depth of from 2,300 to 2,400 fathoms. Deeper spots show from 2,800 to 2,900 fathoms. |