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A bibliography is given of 169 papers and books on the igneous and metamorphic rocks of the deep ocean floor which have appeared between 1876 and the end of 1969. Descriptions of rocks from the continental margins and of glacial erratics have been excluded as also have most papers on rocks from islands and their underwater slopes and from large seamounts.
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