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  IUE BRANCH of the. Atlantic basin cuts curves into an oval tip 40 miles across. Scientists rim. Seventy miles north, the Wall 
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  The Tongue D"into'the azure Bahama Bank, photographed believe that turbulence on the ocean floor formed 6,000 feet to the channel 
  floor (next page). Open--
                from 105 miles above by Apollo 9 astronauts orbit- the Tongue by keeping it clean of the limestone ings along the 
  Wall may admit sea water later dis-
  ofthe Ocean ing the earth. Near southern Andros at left, the particles that built the surrounding bank. Tidal gorged from blue 
  holes, which could ex
                               plain why
  Tongue of the Ocean, partly obscured by clouds, currents receding from the shallows furrow the the output of the holes appears to 
  exceed intake.