Author: M. N. HillPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674017306
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 988
Book Description
The Sea, Volume 3: the Earth Beneath the Sea History
Author: M. N. HillPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674017306
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 988
Book Description
The Sea: The earth beneath the sea. History
Author: The Earth Beneath the Sea
Author: The Earth Beneath the Sea
Author: Maurice Neville HillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine geophysics
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
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Exploring the Earth under the Sea
Author: Neville ExonPublisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760461466
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Exploring the Earth under the Sea brings to life the world’s largest and longest-lived geological research program, which has been drilling over many decades at many locations deep below the ocean floor to recover continuous cores of sediment and rock. Study of these materials has helped us understand how the Earth works now, how it has worked in the past and how it may work in the future. The cores are a wonderful source of information on the dynamic processes that form and reform the Earth, both beneath the ocean and on land. The results have revealed climate and oceanographic change on different time frames, the history of life in the sea and on land including global mass extinctions, the extraordinary story of the great masses of ‘extremophile’ microbes that live beneath the sea bed, the nature of the giant earthquakes and tsunami generated at the trenches where tectonic plates collide, and the nature of submarine volcanoes and metalliferous deposits. This book outlines the technology and enduring international partnerships that underlie the scientific ocean drilling accomplished by the first phase of IODP, currently involving 23 countries. It highlights the important role of Australian and New Zealand scientists in the program, and the great scientific benefits we have derived from our partnership since joining IODP in 2008. As well as the scientific summaries, there are personal accounts by shipboard scientists of how they found life at sea on two-month expeditions, working 12-hour shifts on a noisy drill ship.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Author: Jules VernePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Submarines (Ships)
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
The Sea, Ideas and Observations on Progress in the Study of the Seas: The earth beneath the sea: history
Author: The Unnatural History of the Sea
Author: Callum RobertsPublisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1597265772
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 615
Book Description
Humanity can make short work of the oceans’ creatures. In 1741, hungry explorers discovered herds of Steller’s sea cow in the Bering Strait, and in less than thirty years, the amiable beast had been harpooned into extinction. It’s a classic story, but a key fact is often omitted. Bering Island was the last redoubt of a species that had been decimated by hunting and habitat loss years before the explorers set sail. As Callum M. Roberts reveals in The Unnatural History of the Sea, the oceans’ bounty didn’t disappear overnight. While today’s fishing industry is ruthlessly efficient, intense exploitation began not in the modern era, or even with the dawn of industrialization, but in the eleventh century in medieval Europe. Roberts explores this long and colorful history of commercial fishing, taking readers around the world and through the centuries to witness the transformation of the seas. Drawing on firsthand accounts of early explorers, pirates, merchants, fishers, and travelers, the book recreates the oceans of the past: waters teeming with whales, sea lions, sea otters, turtles, and giant fish. The abundance of marine life described by fifteenth century seafarers is almost unimaginable today, but Roberts both brings it alive and artfully traces its depletion. Collapsing fisheries, he shows, are simply the latest chapter in a long history of unfettered commercialization of the seas. The story does not end with an empty ocean. Instead, Roberts describes how we might restore the splendor and prosperity of the seas through smarter management of our resources and some simple restraint. From the coasts of Florida to New Zealand, marine reserves have fostered spectacular recovery of plants and animals to levels not seen in a century. They prove that history need not repeat itself: we can leave the oceans richer than we found them.
The Sea
Author: Maurice Neville HillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine sediments
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Francis C. Shepard