
eBook - ePub
Understanding the Oceans
A Century of Ocean Exploration
- 320 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
About this book
Understanding the Oceans brings together an internationally distinguished group of authors to consider the enormous advances in marine science that have been achieved since the voyages of HMS Challenger a century ago. The book draws inspiration from the seminal contribution made by the research conducted on those voyages, and each contributor considers the significance of the findings, relating them to the exciting developments of today and tomorrow.
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Yes, you can access Understanding the Oceans by Margaret Deacon,Tony Rice,Colin Summerhayes in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Biological Sciences & Biology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Understanding the Oceans
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Notes on contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part 1 The historical context
- 1 The Challenger Expedition
- 2 ‘Big science’ in Victorian Britain
- 3 Oceanographic sovereigns
- 4 Expedition to investigation
- Part 2 Ocean basins
- Introduction
- 5 Shape as a key to understanding the geology of the oceans
- 6 Silent, strong and deep
- 7 Palaeoceanography
- 8 Hydrothermal activity at mid-ocean ridges
- Part 3 Ocean circulation
- Introduction
- 9 Polar dreams and California sardines
- 10 Direct measurement of subsurface ocean currents
- 11 Oceanography from space
- 12 Transient tracers and tracer release experiments
- Part 4 The ocean ecosystem
- Introduction
- 13 ‘Problem children of analytical chemistry 9
- 14 Why is the sea salty?
- 15 Deep-sea biology in the 1990s
- 16 The Challenger legacy
- Postscript
- Index