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Oceanography

Books on: ocean bottom

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Wonders of the Sea: Merging Ocean Myth and Ocean Science

Book by Kendall Haven, Julie Stringer; Libraries Unlimited, 2005

Subjects:

Ocean--Mythology--Study And Teaching (Elementary), Ocean--Mythology--Study And Teaching (Middle School), Ocean--Study And Teaching (Elementary), Ocean--Study And Teaching (Middle School)

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...other places along the edges of oceans. One plate rides up on top...other, pushing the edge of the bottom plate back down into the mantle. Volcanoes and deep ocean trenches mark these areas that...As continents slowly move, oceans also change shape. But the ocean changes in other ways as well...
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The Atlantic: A History of an Ocean

Book by Leonard Outhwaite; Coward McCann, 1957

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Atlantic Ocean

Collections: History, Entire Library

...comparative shallowness of the oceans but neither he nor his...reader how shallow the oceans really are. It is easy...may properly say the ocean is deep when he can no longer touch bottom. A primitive man sailing...supersonic waves to the bottom of the ocean. The waves are created...of the depth of the oceans and they already knew...
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Seas, Maps, and Men: An Atlas-History of Man's Exploration of the Oceans

Book by G. E.R. Deacon; Doubleday, 1962

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Ocean

Collections: History, Entire Library

...also got a sample of the bottom, and with thermometers...bottom far out in the oceans. In some attempts they...about the depths of the ocean. As a result, sounding...mountain ranges of the ocean bottom. The expedition...the giant size of the oceans and the many difficulties...exploring the deep-ocean floor and
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Fire in the Turtle House: The Green Sea Turtle and the Fate of the Ocean

Book by Osha Gray Davidson; Public Affairs, 2001

Subjects:

Endangered Species, Green Turtle, Green Turtle--Diseases, Nature--Effect Of Human Beings On, Ocean

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...Institution Press, 1981 , pp. 183-88. Knight, Danielle. "Ocean bottom trawling worse than forest clearcutting." Inter Press...93. Levitus, Sydney, et al. "Warming of the world ocean." Science , 24 March 2000, pp. 2225-29. Lewis...
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Oceans Governance and Maritime Strategy

Book by David Wilson, Dick Sherwood; Allen & Unwin, 2000

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Asia--Military Relations--Australia, Australia--Military Relations--Asia, Indian Ocean--Strategic Aspects, Marine Resources--Australia, Sea-Power--Australia

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...sensing the interior of the ocean on basin scales, and is presently...similar network in the Indian Ocean. He has led research cruises...currents of the great Southern Ocean, and in bottom water formation along the Antarctic...is currently working as an oceans policy adviser on the development...

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Journal Articles on: ocean bottom

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Ocean Security, Sustainable Development and Peace

Journal article by Peter Jacques; International Journal of Humanities and Peace, Vol. 18, 2002

Subjects:

Ocean--Environmental aspects, Peace--Environmental aspects, Security, International--Environmental aspects, Sustainable development--Environmental aspects

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...which are provided by the World Ocean. This provision, Indeed, this relationship with the ocean Is a cornerstone of life...components of environmental ocean change via global warming...sustainable development with the oceans in mind may have the potential...with the apex sustained by the bottom. But it will be an oceanic...
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Oceans, Fear and the Jungian Connection in Solaris and Sphere

Journal article by Emma B. Hawkins; Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 2003

Subjects:

Crichton, Michael--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Lem, Stanislaw--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Ocean--Psychological aspects, Solaris (Book)--Psychological aspects, Sphere (Book)--Psychological aspects

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...surface of the South Pacific Ocean. Besides a watery setting...alien life forms, the sentient ocean of Solaris and the highly intelligent...scientists and to explore the oceans "psychic functions" (171...electrical discharges from the ocean (175). Shortly before the...gargantuan spacecraft on the bottom of the ocean. As a result...
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Who Is Responsible for Marine Debris? the International Politics of Cleaning Our Oceans

Journal article by Justin P. Leous, Neal B. Parry; Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 59, 2005

Subjects:

Ocean waste disposal--Environmental aspects, Ocean waste disposal--Laws, regulations and rules, Ocean waste disposal--Prevention, United States. Environmental Protection Agency--Environmental policy, Waste disposal in the ocean--Environmental aspects, Waste disposal in the ocean--Laws, regulations and rules, Waste disposal in the ocean--Prevention

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...plastics can persist in the oceans. (15) According to the...Protection Agency (EPA) and the Ocean Conservancy, it can take...float, suspend or sink to the bottom of the ocean, allowing for a widespread...October 2005). (3) The Ocean Conservancy, Cruise Ships and Clean Oceans, 2004, at http://www...
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Wave New World: Promoting Ocean Wave Energy Development through Federal-State Coordination and Streamlined Licensing

Journal article by Mark Sherman; Environmental Law, Vol. 39, 2009

Subjects:

Energy Policy Act of 2005, Energy policy--Laws, regulations and rules, Hydroelectric power--Licensing agreements, Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Act of 1980, Ocean thermal energy conversion--Laws, regulations and rules, Water-power--Licensing agreements

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...source. Certain features of the Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Act...licensing scheme for proposed ocean thermal energy conversion...harmonizing the competing uses of the oceans while allowing successful development...source? Such is the promise of ocean wave energy, which can potentially...shore), and can be either bottom mounted or floating. (67...
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Will Ocean Acidification Erode the Base of the Food Web?

Journal article by Carol Potera; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 118, 2010

Subjects:

Atmospheric carbon dioxide--Research, Ocean--Environmental aspects, Oceans--Environmental aspects, Water acidification--Environmental aspects, Water acidification--Research

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...Acidification of the worlds oceans is already damaging coral reefs...issue of Science, suggest ocean acidification could have a...plants, which reside at the bottom of the food web and support...carbonic acid. The acidity of oceans is changing very rapidly...ion concentration of surface ocean water (a reflection of pH...

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Magazine Articles on: ocean bottom

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When Seafloor Meets Ocean, the Chemistry Is Amazing

Magazine article by Jean K. Whelan; Oceanus, Vol. 42, 2004

Subjects:

Methane, Ocean bottom, Underwater exploration

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...methane gas into the ocean-a process akin to...for nations close to oceans or permafrost regions...gas reserves in the ocean south of Japan are 2...conditions on the ocean bottom, so researchers must...be ubiquitous in the oceans, they are a potentially...modest changes in global ocean temperatures or sea...If a change in ocean bottom pressure or a rise in...
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Clear-Cutting the Ocean Floor

Magazine article by Helen Baulch; Alternatives Journal, Vol. 25, Summer 1999

Subjects:

Drift nets--Environmental aspects, Fisheries--Environmental aspects, Ocean bottom--Environmental aspects, Trawling--Environmental aspects

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CLEAR-CUTTING THE OCEAN FLOOR by HELEN BAULCH Trawling gear...several tonnes are dragged along the ocean bottom, dislodging rocks, sediments, plants...single season. Current estimates of the ocean area dragged annually by trawl nets...
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Deep Seabed Mining: Frontier to Oblivion! Mining the Seabed Is a New Industrial Frontier with Destructive Consequences for Marine Life, Writes Dennis Small. with the Oceans Already Showing Many Signs of Serious Damage from Current Industrial Activity, Adding to the Damage by Intensively Mining the Seabed Will Take Us Further Down the Road of Ecological Disaster

Magazine article by Dennis Small; Pacific Ecologist, Winter 2011

Subjects:

Ocean bottom--Environmental aspects, Ocean bottom--Protection and preservation, Underwater drilling--Environmental aspects

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...connection upward from benthic bottom living, deep-ocean floor fauna into that part...shelf. The Gulf of Mexico ocean oil drilling disaster gave...warming. (6) Back in 1971, ocean visionary Jacques-Yves Cousteau...impacts even then on the deep oceans. As Cousteau warned: The...
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New Ocean to Split Ethiopia? A Gigantic Rift Broke Open the Desert Ground in Ethiopia in 2005, and Now Scientists Have Found Proof That It Is the First Step in a Process That Will Split Eastern Ethiopia and Somalia from the African Continent by a New Ocean, Reports Afrol News

Magazine article by Afrol; New African, December 2009

Subjects:

Continental drift--Research, Ethiopia--Natural history, Faults (Geology)--Discovery and exploration, Ocean bottom--Properties

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...African Continent by a New Ocean, Reports Afrol News. by Afrol...was the beginning of a new ocean as two parts of the African...nearly identical to those at the bottom of the worlds oceans, and the rift is indeed likely...the fissure. This process of ocean formation is normally hidden...
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The Grass Is Greener in the Coastal Ocean

Magazine article by Kenneth H. Brink; Oceanus, Vol. 43, 2004

Subjects:

Marine biology, Ocean bottom, Oceanography, Oceans

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...of the continental shelf, the coastal ocean accounts for about 10 percent of the oceans surface area. Yet this relatively small sliver of ocean contains about half of all the microscopic...biologically productive portions of the worlds oceans. Acre for acre, the coastal ocean is as productive as a prosperous Midwestern...

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Newspaper Articles on: ocean bottom

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Aquanaut Lives under Water Researching Ocean's Bottom: Home Called Aquarius for Her Project on Coral Reefs

Newspaper article by Laura R. Vanderkam; The Washington Times, August 16, 1998

Subjects:

Earle, Sylvia

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...under water researching oceans bottom: Home called Aquarius...and stay beneath the ocean for days at a time...optimistic about the oceans health. "Oceans are...the coastal waters. Oceans are our life support...their connection to the ocean." Coral reefs show...
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Dancers Get to Bottom of Ocean Mystery

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 22, 2010

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Dancers Get to Bottom of Ocean Mystery. Byline: Sara Hooker shooker...someone starts dumping garbage into the ocean above their home. Its their mission...lighting to reflect the movement of the ocean and water sounds. Creative costuming...
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The Sea Shall Not Have Them; Eleven Years after 118 Submariners Met a Grisly Death at the Bottom of the Ocean in the Kursk, a British Team Has Developed the Most Advanced Underwater Rescue System in the World. Andrew Preston, Right, Watches Them Go into Action

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), July 24, 2011

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Submariners Met a Grisly Death at the Bottom of the Ocean in the Kursk, a British Team Has...underwater. All this is happening on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea just o...in lines and stuck on the Pacific Ocean floor in 2005 they did ask for help...
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Nuclear Bomb at the Bottom of the Ocean

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 11, 2008

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Military bases--Military aspects, Nuclear weapons--Military aspects

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Nuclear Bomb at the Bottom of the Ocean. A NUCLEAR bomb has been lying abandoned at the bottom of the sea for the past 40 years, it was disclosed last night. The bomb was lost by U.S. forces in waters near Greenland in 1968 - but only now...
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Tales of the Southern Seas; Fancy Drinking Tea from an 18th Century Chinese Teapot Salvaged from the Bottom of the Ocean? Katrina Burroughs Is Romanced by Shipwreck Sales

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), March 16, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Chinese Teapot Salvaged from the Bottom of the Ocean? Katrina Burroughs Is Romanced...back and forth across the Indian Ocean and South China Sea on the various...took an unplanned detour to the bottom of the South China Sea. There they...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: ocean bottom

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Ocean

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...to the floor of the oceans, extending from the...line to the greatest ocean depths. The organisms that live in or on the bottom are called benthos...such as shrimp) or bottom dwellers (such as barnacles...Importance of the Ocean Throughout history humans...indirectly influenced by the oceans. Ocean waters serve as a source...
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Arctic Ocean

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...act to separate the Arctic Ocean from the Atlantic. The Arctic Ocean has the widest continental shelf of all the oceans; it extends c.750 mi (1...5,441 m) in the Arctic Ocean is found just N of the Chukchi...cold water is found at the bottom of the Arctic basin. Because...
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Oceanography

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...institutions for the study of the ocean; there exist today about 250...with exploring all aspects of ocean development, and authorized...established temporary stations in oceans to see whether humans can live...direct observations of the deep ocean bottom, mid-ocean ridges, and...
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Annelida

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...throughout the world, from deep ocean bottoms to high mountain glaciers. They...polychaetes swim, crawl over the ocean bottom, or tunnel through surface sediments...organic matter deposited on the ocean floor. For example, the lugworms...
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Cuttlefish

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...During the day they lie buried in the bottom of the ocean; at night they swim and hunt for...which serves as a float in the ocean. The European cuttlefish, Sepia...attached by a stalk to objects on the ocean bottom, are extremely large, up...

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