... outunder the eyes of many readers.
Therefore, these volumes are passedfrom one to another, read over and over,
referred to again and again;and it often happens that they find their way back
to their ... am rather late; or have notothers been
here before me?"
"Yes, Herr Liedenbrock; the labours of MM. Olafsen and Povelsen,pursued
by order of the king, the r...
... Press,
2004.
Marshall, George W. The Winning of the War in Europe and the Pacific: Biennial
Report of the Chief of Staff of the United States Army, July 1, 1943 to June 30, 1945,
to the Secretary of War.New York: ... fundamentalists
see themselves as victims of a worldwide Jewish conspiracy based in free
masonry, extending to the construction of the Suez Canal...
... boundary
of the Southern Ocean is a feature called the Antarctic
GEOGRAPHY OF THE OCEANS 21
thousand). In addition, the Baltic Sea, unlike the North Sea,
is separated from the warming effect of the ... than the Atlantic’s average of 35 parts per
20 OCEANS
GEOLOGY OF THE OCEANS 31
calculate Earth s likely temperature 1,865 miles (3,000 km)
beneath the s...
... fraction of the wind
speed. The fastest major surface currents in the world, the
Gulf Stream of the North Atlantic and the Kuroshio Current
of the North Pacific, flow at speeds of only 2.5 4. 5 mph
(4 7 ... others,
causes the atmosphere to circulate over the planet’s surface.
The Tropics (that part of Earth s surface lying between the
tropic of Cancer in t...
... for most of
Earth s history the great majority of life-forms evolved in the
oceans.
The procession of life
The earliest of Earth s organisms were probably archaebacte-
ria (“archae” from the Greek ... prop-
erly rather than simply suck or filter. By 250 million years ago
30-foot (9-m)-long sharks were traveling the seas, biting into
other fish with their powerful jaws....
... governs the sex of
hatchlings. Typically, cooler eggs (below 82°F or 28°C) develop
BIOLOGY OF THE OCEANS 125
chase other seabirds to rob them of their fish catch, and
they nest near colonies of other ... phytoplankton. Close to
hydrothermal (hot-water) vents, chemosynthetic bacteria are
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fronds, where...
... direction of the four points of the
compass (north, south, east, west). In the Northern Hemi-
sphere the North Star (Polaris) shows north. In the Southern
Hemisphere the cluster of stars called the ... landed in a place they called Vinland (“land of the
vine”) because of the abundance of berry-bearing plants they
found there. In the 1960s archaeologists excavat...
... pages
203–204).
The sea’s military importance
Since the time of the great civilizations of ancient Egypt,
Greece, and Rome in the first millennium
B.C.E., the ocean
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THE USES OF THE OCEANS ... in the near future.
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attractive to prospectors. By the late 1990s more than 30
percent of the world’s oil was b...
... addition, the specter of global warm-
ing looms large.
The future of the oceans
Many scientists suspect that global warming is the greatest
short-term threat to the well-being of life on land and in the
sea. ... reaching the surface of the
Earth. In the last two decades thinning of the ozone layer
over the Southern Ocean has resulted in a decline in the pr...
... Union
(IUCN) 209, 210
worms 25, 105 , 108 , 109 , 111,
141, 142, 150, 158
Z
Zheng Ho 163, 165
zooplankton 104 106
in deep-ocean sediments
42
definition of 101
in food chain 105 106 ,
136–137
iron-seeding and ... grams of seawater
satellite remote sensing the use of satellites to detect fea-
tures of Earth s surface
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plankton 67–68, 100 101 . See
also phytopla...
... the
south of Australia
mantle that part of the Earth s interior lying between the
outer edge of the inner core and the underside of the crust
meadow-steppe
STEPPE grassland lying to the south of the ... covers the surface of a plant leaf
lithosphere the uppermost part of the solid Earth, comprising
the crust and upper
MANTLE
llanero one of the...
... up the question of animals
demands once it is no longer possible to defi ne the plurality of animals
within the terms provided by the fi gure of the animal. The complemen-
tarity between the ... part of an actualised relation. It does both. Jews and
animals, in being there, make demands. These demands, however, have
their greatest exigency once they can be loca...
... up before the onset of nuclear reactions in
the proto -Sun. Such resonances may expedite the onset of nuclear ignition in the
proto -Sun and the redistribution and loss of the proto -Sun s angular ... found to show good correlation between the polar field at the
minimum and the strength of the next sunspot cycle when the turbulent diffusiv-
ity inside the conve...