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On the nature of continental shelves

Title
On the nature of continental shelves / John J. Walsh.
Author
Walsh, John J. (John Joseph), 1942-
Publication
San Diego : Academic Press, ©1988.

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Description
viii, 520 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Continental shelf
  • Marine biology
  • Marine pollution
  • Biogeochemical cycles
  • Marine Biology
  • marine biology
  • marine pollution
  • Plateaux continentaux
  • Biogeochemical cycles
  • Continental shelf
  • Marine biology
  • Marine pollution
  • Meereskunde
  • Meeresökologie
  • Schelf
  • Continentaal plat
  • Ecologie
  • Biogeochemie
  • Geomorfologia Marinha
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 445-504.
Contents
INTRODUCTION: Anthropogenic impacts -- Spatial extent -- Boreal shelf structure -- Tropical shelf rectification -- Food web coupling -- CIRCULATION: Equations of motion -- Ekman dynamics -- Vertical coupling -- Spatial resolution -- Time dependence -- Vorticity -- Baeolinicity -- PRODUCTION: Photosynethesis -- Sampling considerations -- Spatially synoptic chlorophyll fields -- Time-dependent chlorophyll fields -- CONSUMPTION: Mass balances -- Bering sea budget -- Mid-Atlantic budget -- Gulf of Mexico budget -- Food limitation -- STROAGE: Sinking losses -- Present depocenters -- Past depocenters -- ALTERATION: Atmospheric forcing -- Eutophication overfishing -- Climate.
ISBN
  • 012733775X
  • 9780127337753
LCCN
87001484
OCLC
  • ocm15414962
  • 15414962
  • SCSB-8850357
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library