The Sea. Ideas and Observations on Progress in the Study of the Seas. Volume 2. The Composition of Sea Water. Comparative and Descriptive Oceanography

Edited By M. N. Hill

Published by John Wiley & Sons, Great Britain, 1963

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Hardback. First Edition. The Sea. Ex-library with ex-library markings. Foxing to end inside covers. Contents: The Composition of Sea-Water. Chemistry: The oceans as a Chemical System. The Influence of organisms on the Composition of Sea-Water. Artifical Radioactivity in the Sea. Radioisotopes and Large-Scale Oceanic Mixing. Chemical Instrumentation. Water Sampling and Thermometers. Fertility of the Oceans: Productivity, Definition and Measurements. Organic Regulation of Phytoplankton Fertility. Bioassay of Trace Substances. Comparative and Descriptive Oceanography: Currents - Equatorial Current Systems. Eastern Boundary Currents. The Southern Ocean. Deep-Curren Measurements Using Neutrally Buoyant Floats. Drogues and Neutral-Buoyant Floats. Applications of the Gyropendulum. Biological Oceanography: Geographic Variations in Productivity. Biological Species - Water-Masses and Currents. Communities of Organisms. Theory of Food-Chain Relations in the Ocean. Fishery Dynamics - Their Analysis and Interpretation. Oceanographical Miscellanea: Seasonal Changes in Sea-Level. Bathyscaphs and other Deep Surmersibles For Oceanographic Research. Deep-Sea Anchoring and Mooring. Author Index. Subject Index. Illustrated. 554 pp. Hardback. The Sea. Ex-library with ex-library markings. This volume is the continuation of the series published in 1963 under the editorship of Maurice N. Hill. Originally, only three volumes covering physical oceanography composition of sea water, comparative and descriptive oceanography, and the history of the earth beneath the sea had been planned. However, the accumulation of a vast amount of knowledge in the relatively short period since those volumes were published, has necessitated continuing the series. Illustrated. 791 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

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• Title: The Sea. Ideas and Observations on Progress in the Study of the Seas. Volume 2. The Composition of Sea Water. Comparative and Descriptive Oceanography
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Great Britain
• Publication Date: 1963
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
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