00000cam a22000003a 4500 UP-1685594773861924244 Buklod 20130805154900.0 g||| | || || ta 130805s2002 xx d r |||| u| 053437557X (iLib)UPBAG-00011048330 Eng GC 11.2 G37 2002 Garrison, Tom 1942- Oceanography an invitation to marine science Tom Garrison. 4th ed. Pacific Grove, Calif. Wasdworth/Thomson Learning c2002. xxi, 554 p. col., ill., maps 29 cm. + 1 computer optical disc (4 3/4 in.) KTRC-ACD#015 Books in the Brooks/Cole biology series Accompanying disc has title from label: Earth systems today : living text. Includes bibliographical references, glossary and index. Earth Systems Today Contents: Weather and Climate -- Earth's Layers -- Geologic Time -- Rocks and the Rock Cycle -- Waves, Tides, and Currents -- Volcanism -- Groundwater -- Earthquakes and Tsunamis -- Plate Tectonics -- Atoms & Crystals. An ocean world -- A marine point of view -- Marine science, oceanography, and the nature of science -- The origin of the earth -- Earth and ocean -- The origin of live -- The distant future of earth? -- A history of oceanography -- Making marine history -- Voyaging begins -- Science for voyaging -- Voyaging for science -- The first scientific expeditions -- Voyages for science in the twentieth century -- The rise of oceanographic institutions -- Satellite oceanography -- Alphabet oceanography -- History in progress -- Plate tectonics -- A dangerous breakthrough -- A layered earth -- The evidence for layering -- Toward a new understanding of earth -- Plate boundaries -- The confirmation of plate tectonics -- An overview, problems, and implications -- Continental margins and ocean basins -- Trieste at the bottom -- Bathymetry -- The topography of ocean floors -- Continental margins -- Deep-ocean basins -- The grand tour -- Sediments -- The memory of the ocean -- What sediments look like -- Classifying sediment by particle size -- Classifying sediment by source -- The distribution of marine sediments -- The sediments of continental margins -- The sediments of deep-ocean basins -- Sediments : an overview -- Studying sediments -- Sediments as historical records -- The economic importance of marine sediments -- Water and ocean structure -- Icebergs -- The water molecule -- Water and heat -- Global thermostatic effects -- Temperature, salinity, and water density -- Refraction, light, and sound -- Light in the ocean -- Sound in the ocean -- Seawater chemistry -- Cooking up the recipe for water -- The dissolving power of water -- Seawater -- Dissolved gases -- Acid-base balance -- Atmospheric circulation -- Riding the winds -- Composition and properties of the atmosphere -- Atmospheric circulation -- Wind patterns -- Storms -- Ocean circulation -- Going with the flow -- Surface currents -- Effects of surface currents on climate -- Upwelling and downwelling El Niño, La Niña -- Thermohaline circulation -- Studying currents -- Wave dynamics and wind waves -- Surfing -- Ocean waves -- Classifying waves -- Deep-water waves, shallow-water waves -- Wind waves -- Interference and rogue waves -- Wind waves approaching shore -- Internal waves -- Tsunami, seiches, and tides -- The gods of Lituya Bay -- A word about "tidal waves" -- Storm surges -- Seiches -- Tsunami and seismic sea waves -- Tides and the forces that generate them -- The equilibrium theory of tides -- The dynamic theory of the tides -- Tide and marine organisms -- Power from the tides -- Coasts -- Very carefully! -- Coast and shore -- Classifying coasts -- Primary coasts -- Secondary coasts -- Beaches -- Large-scale features of secondary coasts -- Coasts formed by biological activity -- Estuaries -- Characteristics of U.S. coasts -- Human interference in coastal processes -- Life in the ocean -- The breath of the planet -- Being alive -- Biogeochemical cycles -- Limiting factors -- Evolution and life in the ocean -- Classification of oceanic life -- Physical factors affecting marine life -- Organisms and ocean together -- Classifications of the marine environment -- Primary producers -- The forest beneath the waves -- The capture and flow of energy -- Primary productivity -- Plankton -- Larger marine producers -- Marine animals -- "...silver-shining, swift, strong, streamlined..." -- The origin of animals -- Introducing the invertebrates -- The worm phyla -- The advanced invertebrates -- The chordates -- Fishes The problems of fishes -- Amphibians -- Marine reptiles -- Marine birds -- Marine mammals -- Marine communities -- The resourceful hermit -- Marine communities -- Organisms within communities -- Change in marine communities -- Examples of marine communities -- Symbiotic interactions and dependencies -- Marine resources -- An endless supply? -- Classes of marine resources -- Physical resources -- Marine energy -- Biological resources -- Nonextractive resources -- The law of the sea -- Environmental concerns -- A cautionary tale -- Marine pollution -- Habitat destruction -- Global changes -- What can be done? -- Appendix I. Measurements and conversions -- Appendix II. Geological time -- Appendix III. Latitude and longitude, time, and navigation -- Appendix IV. Maps and charts -- Appendix V. The Coriolis effect -- Appendix VI. Taxonomic classification of marine organisms -- Appendix VII. Calculating the tide generating force -- Appendix VIII. Working in marine science. Earth systems today, an electronic textbook covering physical geology, historical geology, earth science, earth systems science, oceanography, environmental science, and meteorology. Oceanography. UPBAG KTRC GC 11.2 G37 2002 Book