Until approximately 200 years ago the ocean floor was believed to be
A) unfathomable, stretching nearly to the center of Earth.
B) covered by sediments thousands of kilometers in thickness.
C) a flat featureless plain of sediments.
D) populated by sea monsters.
E) riddled with caverns extending to the center of Earth.
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