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The waters...Religious as well as scientific concepts about the early earth refer to the ocean. Indeed, geologists who specialize in the early history of the earth believe that there was a globe-encircling ocean during the first billion years of the earth’s existence. The most recent theories about the chemical origin of life suggest that the first life formed in geothermal brines in the deep sea. Archeologists confirm that human societies have long had close ties to the edge of the sea. And the ocean continues to play an important role in our lives today. Of the world’s twenty largest cities, eighteen have direct ocean access. We swim in the sea, fish in it, sail on it, dump waste in it, and wonder about it. Many of our students indicate a strong interest in learning about the diversity of marine organisms and how physical factors influence these organisms. This provided us with another reason for writing the book. To present a balanced and intergrated treatment of the ocean's physical and biological factors, the book emphasizes visual materials. This second edition of Oceanography: An Introduction has been substantially rewritten and reorganized, based upon an extensive survey of

Author

Dale E. Ingmanson, William J. Wallace

Publisher

Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc.; printed by Kingsport Press

Published

1979

Language

EN

ISBN

9780534005382

Subjects

Science, Anthropology, Social_sciences