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Reasons To Be Happy At the Beach
by Sandy Gingras  Publisher Comments There are so many reasons to be happy at the beach. This little book delights in the counting of some favorites. Combined with the author's charming watercolors, this book shows us how present happiness really is -- all we have to do is look....
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Measuring and Understanding Coastal Processes
by National Research Council Publisher Comments Much of the U.S. coastline is rapidly changing - mostly eroding. That fact places increasing pressure on the planners and managers responsible for coastal development and protection, and could have a direct effect on many of the 125 million Americans...
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Sea: Ideas and Observations on Progress in the Study of the #14B: The Sea, Volume 14b, the Global Coastal Ocean: Interdisciplinary Regional Studies and Syntheses
by Allan R. (edt) Robinson Publisher Comments studies of the global coastal ocean continue the series' overall effort to encourage and facilitate coastal and shelf ocean sciences and technology on a global basis....
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Seismic Reflection Profiles in the Western Pacific, 1965-1974
by Sadanori Murauchi Publisher Comments Since 1965, Seismic reflection profiles have been recorded as part of the seismic refraction and reflection studies conducted by one of the authors on behalf on the Ocean Seismic Research Group of Japan....
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Earth's Land and Water (Social Studies)
by Bonnie Beers Publisher Comments Help young readers enjoy learning about social studies concepts with these colorful, photo-illustrated books. This series relates such areas as history, geography, and social relationships to the reader's everyday world. Yellow Umbrella Books feature...
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The great deep :the sea and its thresholds
by J Hamilton Paterson Book News Annotation Reprint of the Random Century (London) edition of 1992. On oceanography. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)...
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Investigating the Ocean
by R. Mark Leckie Publisher Comments An interactive guide to the science of Oceanography, this resource manual helps students learn about the oceans, explore some of the major phenomena that occur on our planet, and appreciate the way that scientific investigation of the Earth proceeds. The...
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Understanding the Oceans: A Century of Ocean Exploration
by Margaret B. Deacon Publisher Comments Brings together an internationally distinguished group of authors to explore the enormous advances in marine science made since the voyage of HMS Challenger a century ago. The book draws inspiration from the seminal contributions stemming from that...
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Regional Satellite Oceanography
by S. V. Victorov Publisher Comments This work addresses the whole range of problems relating to the application of satellite technology to studies of regional seas and sea phenomona - the Gulf Stream, the Kuroshia Current - and coastal zones. It argues that to emphasize global applications...
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Southern Ocean Ecology
by Sayed Z. El-sayed Publisher Comments BIOMASS (Biological Investigations of Marine Antarctic Systems and Stocks) was a unique, large-scale, long-term, international research programme established in 1977 to investigate the ecology of the Southern Ocean. Its main aim was to gain a greater...
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Elsevier Oceanography Series, #68: Interhemispheric Water Exchange in the Atlantic Ocean
by G. J. Goni Publisher Comments Recent results from modeling and observational studies demonstrate that the tropical Atlantic is a critical region for processes that maintain the meridional overturning circulation, such as cross-equatorial exchanges, and for sea surface temperature...
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Backarc Basins: Tectonics & Magmatism
by Brian (edt) Taylor Book News Annotation A comprehensive treatment of the tectonics and magmatism of backarc basins, from their initial rift stage to mature spreading. It focuses on the young backarc basins of the circum-Pacific, where the volcano- tectonic processes are best studied because...
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Field Guide to the Atlantic Seashore: From the Bay of Fundy to Cape Hatteras (Peterson Field Guides)
by Roger Tory Peterson Publisher Comments More than 1,000 illustrations, arranged according to visual similarities, show plant and animal species of the Atlantic Coast from the Bay of Fundy to Cape Hatteras. This guide includes information on how to locate each species by geographic range, tidal...
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The Dance of the Flying Gurnards: America's Coastal Curiosities and Beachside Wonders
by John Waldman Publisher Comments The bizarre, bottom-dwelling gurnard resembles a flying fish, but contrary to popular belief and local lore its winglike fins propel it in search of food or puff out to warn a predator, rather than allow it to take flight. It is just one of the...
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Fish of the ocean & shore
by J M Thomson Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [192]-200) and index....
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The Benthic Boundary Layer: Transport Processes and Biogeochemistry
by Bernard P. (edt) Boudreau Publisher Comments The benthic boundary layer is the zone of water and sediment immediately adjacent to the bottom of a sea, lake, or river. This zone is of considerable interest to biologists, geochemists, sedimentologists, and engineers because of very strong gradients...
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Saving the Oceans: Endorsed by the World Wildlife Fund
by Joseph Macinnis Publisher Comments Saving the Ocean's explores the marvel and the mystery of the sea and the forces that cloud its future. The book travels to the North Pole, the Mediterranean and down to the Titanic....
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The universe below :discovering the secrets of the deep sea
by William J Broad Publisher Comments The deep sea is teeming with life, most of which has gone unseen by human eyes. Scientists are beginning to explore this fascinating realm of unusual sea creatures and volatile volcanos, using once-secret military technology now freed up by the end of...
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Statistical Analysis of Ocean Waves and Other Environmental Data (Advanced Series on Ocean Engineering)
by Leon E. Borgman Publisher Comments In this book, the statistics of ocean wave phenomena is developed from the viewpoints of individual wave properties, such as height, period, and direction; climatological properties at a given time, such as significant height and directional spectra; and...
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Ocean Yearbook #17: Ocean Yearbook
by Elisabeth M Borgese Publisher Comments Since 1978, the "Ocean Yearbook" has published original, peer-reviewed articles and reference materials for students and practitioners of international law, ocean development, coastal zone management, foreign policy, and strategic studies. Coverage...
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