Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. As the Blake-Bahama platform subsided, sedimentation kept pace with subsidence on the banks, but not in the basins. Buy The tongue of the ocean by Bunting, Eve (ISBN: ) from Amazons Book Store. During their early history the Tongue of the Ocean and the Providence Channel were broad, relatively shallow basins flanked by growing carbonate banks.

This channel and the Providence Channels are the two main branches of the Great Bahama Canyon, a submerged geological feature formed by erosion during periods of lower sea level. The vulture of the sea, borne upon broad wing, and wandering over the wide Atlantic, suddenly suspends his flight to look down upon. Politics: Democrat Religion: Protestant Agent c/o Author Mail, Harcourt Brace, 525 B. citizen Education: Graduated from Methodist College, Belfast, 1945 also attended Queen's University, Belfast. Except for the northern ocean opening, the TOTO is surrounded by numerous islands, reefs, and shoals which make a peripheral shelter isolating it from ocean disturbances, particularly high ambient noise. Bunting) Born 1928 in, Maghera, Northern Ireland came to United States, 1960 became U.S. Its only exposure to the open ocean is at the northern end. Its depth varies gradually from 1,100 m (3,600 ft) in the south to 2,000 m (6,600 ft) in the north. The ocean floor plunges from only 120 feet to 6,000 feet between the islands. The Tongue of the Ocean offers a glimpse of the deep abyss of the ocean just a short distance from the islands. The TOTO is a U-shaped, relatively flat-bottomed depression measuring approximately 30 by 240 kilometres (20 by 150 mi). The Tongue of the Ocean is an area of much deeper water in the Bahamas that separates the island of Andros, Great Exuma, and New Providence. The Tongue of the Ocean ( TOTO) is the name of a region of much deeper water in the Bahamas separating the islands of Andros and New Providence.

Tongue of the Ocean is just above this closeup.

The Tongue of the Ocean by Eve Bunting