- Title Pages
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The Stephen Bechtel Fund
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- Foreword
- Introduction
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One Discovering the Ocean -
Two A Portrait of the Ocean Planet -
Three Life at the Edge of a Fertile Sea -
Four Of Coral Reefs and Atolls -
Five The Zen of the Beach -
Six Unraveling the Gulf Stream Puzzle -
Seven Sardines and the California Current -
Eight Meadows and Deserts of the Sea -
Nine Of Whales and Sharks and Giant Squid -
Ten The Deep, the Cold, the Dark -
Eleven Seeing in the Dark -
Twelve Mountains, Trenches, Sunken Islands -
Thirteen The Ocean’s Memory of the Ice Ages -
Fourteen Abyssal Memories -
Fifteen Global Warming and the Ocean - Epilogue
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Appendix One Units Used in the Ocean Sciences -
Appendix Two Aspects of Ocean Chemistry -
Appendix Three Overview of Major Groups of Important Marine Organisms -
Appendix Four Geologic Time Scale -
Appendix Five Topographic Statistics - Figure Sources and References
- Index
Mountains, Trenches, Sunken Islands
Mountains, Trenches, Sunken Islands
The Great Revolution in Earth Science
This chapter explains the concepts of continental drift, seafloor spreading, plate tectonics, and mantle convection to address the origin of the most striking features of the Earth’s surface. These include land areas and ocean regions, mountain ranges such as volcanic and nonvolcanic mountains, deep trenches, and sunken islands in the Pacific region.
Keywords: continental drift, seafloor spreading, plate tectonics, mantle convection, mountain ranges, trenches, sunken islands
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- Title Pages
-
The Stephen Bechtel Fund
- [UNTITLED]
- [UNTITLED]
- Foreword
- Introduction
-
One Discovering the Ocean -
Two A Portrait of the Ocean Planet -
Three Life at the Edge of a Fertile Sea -
Four Of Coral Reefs and Atolls -
Five The Zen of the Beach -
Six Unraveling the Gulf Stream Puzzle -
Seven Sardines and the California Current -
Eight Meadows and Deserts of the Sea -
Nine Of Whales and Sharks and Giant Squid -
Ten The Deep, the Cold, the Dark -
Eleven Seeing in the Dark -
Twelve Mountains, Trenches, Sunken Islands -
Thirteen The Ocean’s Memory of the Ice Ages -
Fourteen Abyssal Memories -
Fifteen Global Warming and the Ocean - Epilogue
-
Appendix One Units Used in the Ocean Sciences -
Appendix Two Aspects of Ocean Chemistry -
Appendix Three Overview of Major Groups of Important Marine Organisms -
Appendix Four Geologic Time Scale -
Appendix Five Topographic Statistics - Figure Sources and References
- Index
