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Oceanography : the last frontier

Title
Oceanography : the last frontier / edited by Richard C. Vetter.
Publication
New York, Basic Books [1973]

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Additional Authors
  • Vetter, Richard C., 1923-2007
  • Voice of America (Organization)
Description
xii, 399 pages illustrations; 22 cm
Subject
  • Oceanography
  • Oceanography
  • oceanography
Genre/Form
Books.
Note
  • Articles originally prepared for the series of radio broadcasts for the Voice of America Forum lectures from the fall of 1969 to spring 1970.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies.
Contents
The history of oceanography / George E.R. Deacon & Margaret B. Deacon -- The birth and growth of the oceans / Harold C. Urey -- Chemical cycles in the sea / Donald W. Hood -- The marine chemistry of carbon and its role in oceanographic research / Wallace S. Broecker -- Marine manganese minerals / Edward D. Goldberg -- Trace elements in the oceans / Karl K. Turekian -- The origin and growth of the ocean basins / Frederick J. Vine -- The ocean sediments as keys to the past / John Ewing -- Scientific drilling in the deep oceans / Melvin N.A. Peterson -- Minerals from the sea / H.R. Gould -- Unrest in the deep sea / D. James Baker, Jr. -- Waves / Willard J. Pierson -- Tides / Walter Munk -- The Great Alaskan Tsunami / William G. Van Dorn -- Deep ocean circulation / Joseph L. Reid -- Atmosphere and oceans / George S. Benton -- Upwelling and the monsoons / Colin S. Ramage -- Processes of air-sea interaction / Robert G. Fleagle -- The origin and evolution of life in the sea / Alfred Sherwood Romer -- Productivity of organic matter in the oceans / John H. Ryther -- The food web of the sea / Gordon Riley -- Fisheries of the world / Wilbert McLeod Chapman -- The multiple use of the coastal environment / Nelson Marshall -- Shore processes / Douglas L. Inman -- Fishery forecasting for food from the sea / Glenn A. Flittner -- Circulation and mixing in coastal regions and estuaries / Donald W. Pritchard -- International cooperation / C.E. Lucas -- The future / Paul M. Fye.
ISBN
  • 0465051707
  • 9780465051700
LCCN
70158445
OCLC
  • ocm00723938
  • 723938
  • SCSB-9130453
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library