Oceans
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Oceans
(DK online)
DK Pub., 2008
- hard cover
- paperback
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Summary: Explores various aspects of the world's oceans and provides instructions on how to find additional information via the DK online website by using keywords from the book
Includes index
HTTP:URL=http://www.oceans.dkonline.com Pub. note=DK online website:
Contents of Works
- An ocean planet
- Ocean pioneers
- Oceanography
- Exploring the ocean depths
- The ocean floors
- Oceans and continents
- Midocean ridges
- Hotspots and seamounts
- Ocean trenches
- Tsunamis
- Coastal erosion
- Abyssal plains
- Changing sea levels
- Ocean water
- Heat and light
- Icy oceans
- Oceans and the atmosphere
- Cyclones and hurricanes
- Wind and waves
- Tides and tidal streams
- Surface currents
- Seasonal shifts
- Deep-water currents
- Nutrients and life
- The marine food web
- Living underwater
- Life in shallow seas
- Life on tidal shores
- Life in icy oceans
- Coral reefs and atolls
- The open oceans
- The ocean depths
- Hydrothermal vents
- Minerals from the sea
- Energy from the oceans
- Fishing and mariculture
- Overfishing and bycatch
- Ocean trade and tourism
- Habitat destruction
- Climate change
- Marine conservation