Understanding the Oceans
eBook - ePub

Understanding the Oceans

A Century of Ocean Exploration

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Understanding the Oceans

A Century of Ocean Exploration

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

  1. Cover
  2. Understanding the Oceans
  3. Title Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Figures
  6. Tables
  7. Notes on contributors
  8. Foreword
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Introduction
  11. Part 1 The historical context
  12. 1 The Challenger Expedition
  13. 2 ‘Big science’ in Victorian Britain
  14. 3 Oceanographic sovereigns
  15. 4 Expedition to investigation
  16. Part 2 Ocean basins
  17. Introduction
  18. 5 Shape as a key to understanding the geology of the oceans
  19. 6 Silent, strong and deep
  20. 7 Palaeoceanography
  21. 8 Hydrothermal activity at mid-ocean ridges
  22. Part 3 Ocean circulation
  23. Introduction
  24. 9 Polar dreams and California sardines
  25. 10 Direct measurement of subsurface ocean currents
  26. 11 Oceanography from space
  27. 12 Transient tracers and tracer release experiments
  28. Part 4 The ocean ecosystem
  29. Introduction
  30. 13 ‘Problem children of analytical chemistry 9
  31. 14 Why is the sea salty?
  32. 15 Deep-sea biology in the 1990s
  33. 16 The Challenger legacy
  34. Postscript
  35. Index