Understanding the Oceans : a Century of Ocean Exploration /: a Century of Ocean Exploration. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Editors, Margaret Deacon, Tony Rice, Colin Summerhayes.
• Editors: Deacon, Margaret; Rice, Tony; Summerhayes, Colin
• Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of table; Notes on contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART 1: The historical context; 1: The Challenger Expedition: the end of an era or a new beginning?; 2: 'Big science' in Victorian Britain: the Challenger Expedition (1872-6) and its Report (1881-95); 3: Oceanographic sovereigns: Prince Albert I of Monaco and King Carlos I of Portugal; 4: Expedition to investigation: the work of the Discovery Committee; PART 2: Ocean basins; Introduction: the exploration of the sea floor 5: Shape as a key to understanding the geology of the oceans6: Silent, strong and deep: the mystery of how basins fill; 7: Palaeoceanography: tapping the ocean's long-term memory; 8: Hydrothermal activity at mid-ocean ridges; PART 3: Ocean circulation; Introduction: ocean circulation; 9: Polar dreams and California sardines: Harald Ulrik Sverdrup and the study of ocean circulation prior to World War II; 10: Direct measurement of subsurface ocean currents: a success story; 11: Oceanography from space: past success, future challenge 12: Transient tracers and tracer release experiments: new tools for the oceanographerPART 4: The ocean ecosystem; Introduction; 13: 'Problem children of analytical chemistry': elucidating the seasonal cycle of marine plankton production through nutrient analysis; 14: Why is the sea salty? -- What controls the composition of ocean water?; 15: Deep-sea biology in the 1990s: a legacy of the Challenger Expedition; 16: The Challenger legacy: the next twenty years; Postscript: the Challenger Expedition on postage stamps; Index
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 551.46; Marine sciences; Aquatic sciences; Aquatic sciences; Marine sciences; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781482287004; 1482287005
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