Keywords:
Marine ecology.
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Ocean.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
Explore the importance of our oceans through 50 key topics, each concisely explained by a team of experts.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (162 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780711252684
Series Statement:
30-Second Series
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=6845507
DDC:
551.46
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Introduction -- Ocean Fundamentals -- Glossary -- Why is the Sea Salty? -- Storing Sunlight as Heat -- The Ocean as Layer Cake -- Profile: Vagn Walfrid Ekman -- Sea Level Rise -- Waves -- Beaches & -- Rip Currents -- Tides -- Dead Water -- Physical Geography of the Oceans -- Glossary -- Estuaries -- Reverse Estuaries: The Mediterranean -- Continental Shelf Seas -- The Atlantic Ocean -- Upside-down Ocean: The Arctic -- Profile: Fridtjof Nansen -- The Southern Ocean -- Frozen Ocean: Glaciers & -- Ice Shelves -- Floating Ice Adrift: Icebergs -- The Ocean, Weather & -- Climate -- Glossary -- Global Ocean Conveyor -- The Pacific Ocean & -- El Niño -- Profile: Walter Munk -- The Indian Ocean & -- the Monsoon -- Hurricanes & -- Typhoons -- CO2 Uptake & -- Acidification -- Glaciation -- Living Ocean -- Glossary -- Marine Microbes -- Ocean Biological Carbon Pump -- Intertidal & -- Coastal Communities -- Coral Reefs -- Seabirds -- Blue Carbon -- Underwater Kelp Forests -- Profile: Karin Lochte -- Upper Ocean Ecosystems -- Deep-sea Ecosystems -- Sea Ice Formation -- Dead Zones -- Ocean Exploration, Observations & -- Predictions -- Glossary -- Sampling the Sea -- Profile: Charles Wyville Thomson -- Rise of the Robots -- The View From Outer Space -- Predictions: Past, Present & -- Future Oceans -- Marine Pollution -- Glossary -- From Farms & -- Factories to the Ocean -- The Journey of Marine Plastics -- Picking up our Plastic Trash -- Rubber Ducks & -- Shipping Litter -- Profile: Jacques Cousteau -- Artificial Light at Night -- Noisy Ocean -- Earth Evolution & -- Extra-terrestrial Oceans -- Glossary -- Plate Tectonics -- Profile: Alfred Wegener -- Migrating Sandbars -- Hydrothermal Vents -- Submarine Landslides & -- Tsunamis -- Tides & -- the Evolution of Life on Earth.
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Blast from the Past -- Finding ET: Oceans in the Solar System -- Appendices -- Notes on Contributors -- Resources -- Index -- Acknowledgements -- Copyright.
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