SEA PEN

long, slender colonial organism of the same phylum as the jellyfish. Sea pen colonies are formed by several genera of the order Pennatulacea. The colony consists of a stalk formed by an organism called a primary polyp (see polyp and medusa) and short branches formed by secondary polyps. The stalk, embedded in sand or mud, holds the colony upright. Sea pens differ from the closely related sea pansies and sea feathers by the form of the colony. Sea pens are marine organisms; they are found on Atlantic and Pacific coasts in shallow to moderately deep water. Some reach a length of 2 ft (61 cm) or more. They belong in the phylum Cnidaria, class Anthozoa, order Pennatulacea.

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books on: Sea Pen  - 3543 results

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Troubled Waters: Borders, Boundaries and Possession in the Timor Sea
Book by Ruth Balint; Allen & Unwin, 2005
Subjects: Australia--Boundaries--Timor Island, Fishers--Timor Island, Territorial Waters--Australia, Timor Island (Indonesia)--Boundaries--Australia, Timor Island (Indonesia)--History, Timor Island (Indonesia)--Politics And Government, Timor Island (Indonesia)--Social Life And Customs, Timor Sea
...Since that time, the Timor Sea has become the most fiercely...that there are no lines in the sea is more than a statement against...claimed them. The sweeps of the pen that created these lines simultaneously...on a mythical premise that the sea was empty and that therefore...
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Sea-Brothers: The Tradition of American Sea Fiction from Moby-Dick to the Present
Book by Bert Bender; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988
Subjects: Sea Stories, American--History And Criticism
...of a vessel in a typhoon runs behind the pen" in Melvilles account of the storm 179...Melville"must have seen plenty of storms at sea" and could conclude only that because of...certainly not Colcord, would hold up Colcords sea novel, The Drifting Diamond, to Moby...
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Imperialism at Sea: Naval Strategic Thought, the Ideology of Sea Power, and the Tirpitz Plan, 1875-1914
Book by Rolf Hobson; Brill Academic Publishers, 2002
Subjects: Imperialism--History--19th Century, Imperialism--History--20th Century, Naval Strategy--History--19th Century, Naval Strategy--History--20th Century, Sea-Power, Sea-Power--Germany--History--19th Century, Sea-Power--Germany--History--20th Century, Sea-Power--History--19th Century, Sea-Power--History--20th Century, World Politics--1900-1918
...and Russia. At a stroke of the pen the Admiralty could contain the...and were securely linked by the sea. The only threat that Britain...restored maritime balance. Its sea power was sufficient to protect...this was nothing new, since sea powers had been rising and declining...
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Sea Life in Nelson's Time
Book by John Masefield; Methuen, 1905
Subjects: Great Britain--Royal Navy--Sea Life
...was the manger, a sort of pen, some four feet high, over...shutters when the ship was at sea, but no contrivance that could...manger also served as a sheep-pen or pigsty or cattle byre, if...weather, for a very moderate sea made it necessary to close the...
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Oil and Geopolitics in the Caspian Sea Region
Book by Michael P. Croissant, Bülent Aras; Praeger, 1999
Subjects: Caspian Sea Region--Strategic Aspects, Geopolitics--Caspian Sea Region, Petroleum Industry And Trade--Political Aspects--Caspian Sea Region
...equipment for drilling work in Kazak Caspian Sea sector can be transported only by the Volga...plan to export oil from the Georgian Black Sea coast by tanker to the large oil terminal...September 1997, Chinese Vice President Lee Pen visited Kazakstan, during which the Chinese...
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Charnia and Sea Pens Are Poles Apart
Journal article by Jonathan B. Antcliffe, Martin D. Brasier; Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. 164, 2007
Subjects: Fossils
...at the base of the frond in sea pens, but at the apex in Charnia. The growth mode of sea pens is thus one of segments added...homologized between Charnia and sea pens. We take this to imply that...unlikely that Charnia was a sea pen. This new method of analysing...
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Calloway, Colin G. the Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America
Journal article by Creston Long; International Social Science Review, Vol. 83, 2008
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
Calloway, Colin G. the Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America...Long Calloway, Colin G. The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America...Years War in 1763. In The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America...
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Hunting, Fishing, and the Cramp of Ethics in Ernest Hemingway's the Old Man and the Sea, Green Hills of Africa, and under Kilimanjaro
Journal article by Ryan Hediger; The Hemingway Review, Vol. 27, 2008
Subjects: Ethics--Portrayals, Ethics--Social aspects, Green Hills of Africa (Nonfiction work)--Criticism and interpretation, Hemingway, Ernest--Criticism and interpretation, Hemingway, Ernest--Works, Hunting--Portrayals, The Old Man and the Sea (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Under Kilimanjaro (Book)--Criticism and interpretation
...rendered Santiagos knowledge of the sea. Beegel summarizes her findings...few strokes of his Hemingways pen sufficed to limn a lifetime of intimacy with the sea and its creatures...Santiago has gone further out to sea than is common. The distance...
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Navigating in Perilous Seas of Language: In Memoriam and "The Wreck of the Deutschland"
Journal article by Allan C. Christensen; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 47, 2009
Subjects: Iambic poetry--Criticism and interpretation, In Memoriam (Tennyson, Alfred, Lord) (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation, Rimbaud, Arthur--Criticism and interpretation, Tennyson, Alfred, Lord--Criticism and interpretation, The Poem of the Sea (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation
...resembles, if not yet a sea voyage, an aerial flight...metonym for feather quill pens-incidentally exemplifying...strokes could also allude to pen strokes. (28) In its...title and the "perilous seas" of mine derive from...may be more precisely pens than words. In some languages...means both feather and pen. (23) Aileen Ward...Endymion "A Leap into the Sea" (pp. 113-146...
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Sunderland over Far Eastern Seas: An RAF Flying Boat Navigator's Story
Journal article by Golda Eldridge; Air Power History, Vol. 58, 2011
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Sunderland Over Far Eastern Seas: An RAF Flying Boat Navigator's Story (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
Sunderland over Far Eastern Seas: An RAF Flying Boat Navigators Story. by Golda Eldridge Sunderland Over Far Eastern Seas: An RAF Flying Boat Navigators Story. By Derek E. Empson. South Yorkshire: Pen and Sword, 2010. Maps. Tables. Diagrams...descriptions of flying at wavetop height over the Sea of Japan in a snowstorm should look elsewhere...
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Pen Hadow
Magazine article by Natalie Hoare; Geographical, Vol. 80, September 2008
Subjects: Geographers--Appreciation, Geographers--Practice, Geographers--Works, Hadow, Pen--Appreciation, Hadow, Pen--Practice, Hadow, Pen--Works
Pen Hadow. by Natalie Hoare ILLUSTRATION...map the thickness of the Arctic sea ice by hauling portable radars...accurately, when the perennial sea-ice cover of the Arctic Ocean...observed by satellites monitoring sea-ice thickness. The only way...
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Northern Exposure: Record-Breaking Polar Explorer Pen Hadow Talks to Christian Amodeo about Discovering His Vocation in the RGS-IBG Reading Room, Swimming in the Arctic and His New Fame
Magazine article by Christian Amodeo; Geographical, Vol. 75, November 2003
Subjects: Explorers--Interviews, Hadow, Pen--Interviews, North Pole--Discovery, exploration, etc.
...record-breaking polar explorer Pen Hadow talks to Christian Amodeo...beard, a bright grin appears on Pen Hadows tanned face. "Im a half...with stretches of water amid the sea ice, he chose to go straight...and spent some of that time on sea ice, and I thought I could raise...
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Geosafari Sea Search
Magazine article by Charles Doe; MultiMedia Schools, Vol. 9, November 2002
Subjects: Educational Insights, Educational Insights GeoSafari Sea Search, Interactive computer systems
Geosafari Sea Search by Charles Doe Company...com/. Description: GeoSafari Sea Search is an interactive learning aid that uses an electronic pen, point-and-touch technology...geography. Specifications: Sea Search is approximately 19 x...
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The Voracious Pen of Thomas Carlyle
Magazine article by Meredith Hindley; Humanities, Vol. 30, March 2009
Subjects: Books, French Revolution, German literature, Poetry, Writing
The Voracious Pen of Thomas Carlyle by Meredith Hindley WHEN...Milton. What sprang forth from Carlyles pen was not a dry account of the French Revolution...uncertainty that came from living by his pen. After the wedding, they set up house in...
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California on His Mind the Easel and Pen of Pioneer George Duglas Brewerton
Magazine article by Jourdan Moore Houston, Alan Fraser Houston; California History, Vol. 81, Winter 2002
Subjects: American painters--19th century AD, California--History, Painters, American--19th century AD
...California on His Mind the Easel and Pen of Pioneer George Duglas Brewerton...three days out, the wind and seas increased suddenly, unsurpassed...When not exploring on land and sea, Brewerton was working "under...His nickname "Squibob" and pen name John Phoenix became familiar...
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Sea Cruisers Pen Metaphoric Monikers
Newspaper article by Gene Mueller; The Washington Times, January 22, 1996
Sea cruisers pen metaphoric monikers by Gene Mueller Even though I have a mental...Midlife Cruises" on the back. There also was a boat with "Sea Vous Play," others with "Seas The Moment," "Liquid Plumber" (it was owned by a plumber...
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City Are Left All at Sea; AIDY FUMING OVER PEN CLAIM: Boothroyd Gutted after Seeing Side Lose Out
Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), February 23, 2011
City Are Left All at Sea; AIDY FUMING OVER PEN CLAIM: Boothroyd Gutted after Seeing Side Lose Out. Byline: Alan Poole AIDY Boothroyd struggled to contain his anger last night...
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That's No Killer Whale .. That's Our Tribal Chief; Fury at Plan to Pen Orca
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), June 19, 2004
...Tribal Chief; Fury at Plan to Pen Orca. Byline: By Calum Macdonald...whale, nicknamed Luna, to a pen in a bid to reunite him with...Indian canoes led Luna out to sea. Mowachaht chief Jerry Jack...immoral to try to keep Luna there. SEA DOG: The killer whale and a...
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Back to the Owl and the Pickwick Pen
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 16, 2006
...were still selling quill pens (best quality goose...Biro saw off the quill pen, just as he was to see...of the prestigious Swan pen and Fyne-Poynt pencil...perhaps an amorous deep sea diver who felt a sonnet...blotted or smudged. It made pen and ink look old hat...containing free plastic pens - few of which would actually...
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Food&drink: Spoilt for Choice at Top Pub Restaurant; Taste Test Richard Williams at Pen Y Bryn, Upper Colwyn Bay
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), October 20, 2007
...Taste Test Richard Williams at Pen Y Bryn, Upper Colwyn Bay. Byline...who cannot afford to eat at the Pen y Bryn. It is not that the Pen is expensive, just shes very poor...seascape of the Little Orme, Rhos on Sea and Colwyn Bay. An extra dozen...
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encyclopedia articles on: Sea Pen  - 4 results

 
 
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Sea Pen
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SEA PEN long, slender colonial organism of the same phylum as the jellyfish. Sea pen colonies are formed by several genera of the...in sand or mud, holds the colony upright. Sea pens differ from the closely related sea pansies...
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Coral
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...tentacles. Among the well-known soft corals are the sea pen , sea pansy , whip coral, and organpipe coral. The precious red coral ( Corallium ) of the Mediterranean Sea, used for jewelry, also belongs to that group. The spicules...
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France
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Spain and Andorra (SW), the Mediterranean Sea (S), Switzerland and Italy (SE), and...right-wing candidate, Jean-Marie Le Pen , ran on an extreme anti-immigration platform...right-wing nationalist Jean-Marie Le Pen. Jospin resigned as premier, and Chirac...
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Squid
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...molluscan shell is reduced to a horny plate shaped like a quill pen and buried under the mantle. The mantle, the chief swimming...distinguished by internal cartilaginous supports. Some deep-sea forms have luminescent organs. The common squid is found from...


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