Bernard Pipkin, Donn Gorsline, Richard Casey, Dean Dunn, Stephen Schellenberg

Laboratory Exercises in Oceanography

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The new edition of Laboratory Exercises in Oceanography brings up to date the lab manual used by tens of thousands of students over the past two decades. As always, the manual includes exercises for the major disciplines within oceanography (biology, chemistry, geology, and physics) and incorporates real data from actual experiments. The new edition adds four new labs, thorough updating throughout, new objectives sections, and an 8-page color insert. There is an Instructors Resource Manual to accompany the text which includes explanations and solutions for all exercises in the manual.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. H. Freeman
• 3rd edition
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 271mm x 216mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 685g
• ISBN-13: 9780716737421
• ISBN-10: 0716737426
• Artikelnr.: 22846400

Autorenporträt

Bernard F. Pipkin, Donn S. Gorsline, Richard E. Casey, Dean Dunn, Stephen A. Schellenberg

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
EXERCISES
1. Bathymetry - The Shape of the Sea Floor
2. Marine Charts or Finding Your Way Around
3. Sea Floor Spreading and Plate Tectonics
4. Geography of the Oceans
5. Materials of the Sea Floor and How We Study Them
6. Temperatures of Seawater
7. Salinity of Seawater
8. Water Masses and How We Study Them
9. Surface Currents
10. Tides
11. Waves at Sea
12. Waves in Shallow Water and Beach Erosion
13. Hurricanes - NEW
14. Oceanography from Space - NEW
15. Distribution of Marine Life
16. Primary and Secondary Productivity
17. El Nino - NEW
18. Marine Ecosystems and Nutrient Cycles
19. Plankton
20. Marine Adaptations and the Deep Sea Environment
21. Estuaries
22. Littoral Ecosystems and Environmental Impact - NEW
23. Paleoceanography