LEADER 04219nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910778402803321 005 20230721023253.0 010 $a1-282-36076-0 010 $a9786612360763 010 $a0-520-94254-X 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520942547 035 $a(CKB)1000000000811830 035 $a(EBL)470932 035 $a(OCoLC)567911666 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000304737 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11263486 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000304737 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10284440 035 $a(PQKB)10488559 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055762 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC470932 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30536 035 $a(DE-B1597)520682 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520942547 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL470932 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10343484 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL236076 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000811830 100 $a20090108d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOcean$b[electronic resource] $ereflections on a century of exploration /$fWolf H. Berger with contributions by E. N. Shor 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (533 pages) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-24778-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tFOREWORD -- $tIntroduction. Coping with a Sea of Change -- $t1. Discovering the Ocean: Of Fish and Ships and People -- $t2. A Portrait of the Ocean Planet: Elements of Ocean Literacy -- $t3. Life at the Edge of a Fertile Sea: The Birthplace of Marine Science -- $t4. Of Coral Reefs and Atolls: Stone Gardens of Tropical Seas -- $t5. The Zen of the Beach: Musings on a River of Sand -- $t6. Unraveling the Gulf Stream Puzzle: On a Warm Current Running North -- $t7. Sardines and the California Current: On a Cold Current Running South -- $t8. Meadows and Deserts of the Sea: On the Elusive Concept of Ocean Productivity -- $t9. Of Whales and Sharks and Giant Squid: Reflections on the Big, the Strange, and the Powerful -- $t10. The Deep, the Cold, the Dark: Life at the End of the Line -- $t11. Seeing in the Dark: A Sound Approach to Exploration -- $t12. Mountains, Trenches, Sunken Islands: The Great Revolution in Earth Science -- $t13. The Ocean's Memory of the Ice Ages: The Endless Cycles of Climate Change -- $t14. Abyssal Memories: A Thousand Holes in the Bottom of the Sea -- $t15. Global Warming and the Ocean: Human Impact on a Greenhouse Planet -- $tEpilogue: The Great Trends in Exploration and the Challenges Ahead -- $tAppendix 1. Units Used in the Ocean Sciences -- $tAppendix 2. Aspects of Ocean Chemistry -- $tAppendix 3: Overview of Major Groups of Important Marine Organisms -- $tAppendix 4: Geologic Time Scale -- $tAppendix 5: Topographic Statistics -- $tFigure Sources and References -- $tIndex 330 $aThe past one hundred years of ocean science have been distinguished by dramatic milestones, remarkable discoveries, and major revelations. This book is a clear and lively survey of many of these amazing findings. Beginning with a brief review of the elements that define what the ocean is and how it works-from plate tectonics to the thermocline and the life within it-Wolf H. Berger places current understanding in the context of history. Essays treat such topics as beach processes and coral reefs, the great ocean currents off the East and West Coasts, the productivity of the sea, and the geologic revolution that changed all knowledge of the earth in the twentieth century. 606 $aUnderwater exploration$xHistory 606 $aOcean$xHistory 606 $aOceanography$xHistory 615 0$aUnderwater exploration$xHistory. 615 0$aOcean$xHistory. 615 0$aOceanography$xHistory. 676 $a551.46 686 $aUT 3000$2rvk 700 $aBerger$b Wolfgang H$0630025 701 $aShor$b Elizabeth Noble$01194884 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778402803321 996 $aOcean$93688272 997 $aUNINA