Fundamentals of Oceanography - Softcover

Duxbury, Alison; Duxbury, A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0697266710 ISBN 13: 9780697266712

Publisher: Brown (William C.) Co ,U.S., 1995

Synopsis

Internal questions are spread throughout the text in order to help the students understand material before advancing to new concepts. The text contains information on the latest research which includes drilling, programme locations and findings, Law of the Sea progress, new data on fish catches and coral reef observations. Real life case studies are incorporated throughout the text to capture student interest and relate key concepts to real life. A new chapter on "Coasts, Estuaries and Environmental Issues" has been added to this edition.

About this title

From the Publisher:

In addition it contains the Instructor's Manual (which is password protected) and the Student Study Guide.
Key chapter updates include the following:
Chapter 1: Significant additions to the history of oceanography, including expanding discussion of the voyages of the Phoenicians, Polynesians, and Vikings.

Chapter 2: An expanded discussion of GPS navigation. The discussion of ocean basins has been modified to include the Arctic and an independent ocean. There are new tables describing Earth's water supply and the physical characteristics of the four ocean basins. There is a new discussion of the formation of the universe, the solar system and the Earth. There is a major revision of the discussion of the geologic time scale.

Chapter 3: The discussion of the interior of the Earth and Earth layers has been completely re-written.

Chapter 7: Features the new equipment used by oceanographers to explore the oceans long range independent subsurface robots, robotic devices that report back to the ship or to a satellite, new independent current meters, water samplers and sensors.

Chapter 11: Includes new data on marine mammals, fisheries, and aquaculture.

Chapter 12: Has new data on coral diseases and bleaching; also updated information on shellfish and crab/shrimp harvests.
Internet references have been updated at the end of each chapter. Websites are provided in figure legends when appropriate to encourage students to make use of the information available on the web

About this edition

• Publisher: Brown (William C.) Co ,U.S.
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0697266710
• ISBN 13: 9780697266712
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 336