Mysterious Ocean
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-15631-2 (ISBN)
Dr. Peter Townsend Harris has a PhD in geological oceanography and over 30 years of experience working on and writing about the oceans. He worked at the University of Sydney 1986-93 as a post-doc and lecturer, for Geoscience Australia 1994-2014 and is presently the CEO of GRID-Arendal in Norway. In 2010 he was appointed by the Australian Government to be a member of the United Nations Group of Experts for the first World Ocean Assessment (WOA). In 2014 he took his present position as CEO of GRID-Arendal, a science communication organisation created by the Norwegian government to support the UN Environment Programme.
Chapter1. The ocean begins.- Chapter2. Oceans created - oceans destroyed.- Chapter3. Where did continents come from?.- Chapter4. How deep is the ocean?.- Chapter5. The ocean in motion !.- Chapter6. The lungs of the ocean.- Chapter7. Frozen ocean - ice ages and climate change.- Chapter8. The continental shelf.- Chapter9. The face of the deep.- Chapter10. An ocean of mysteries.
Erscheinungsdatum | 23.06.2019 |
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Reihe/Serie | Springer Oceanography |
Zusatzinfo | VII, 199 p. 31 illus., 27 illus. in color. |
Verlagsort | Cham |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 475 g |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturwissenschaft |
Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Angewandte Physik | |
Schlagworte | climate change • Coastal Sciences • Continental Drift • Glaciation • History of Oceanography • marine and freshwater sciences • ocean floor • Plate Tectonics • Seafloor Mapping • Sea Level Rise • The continental shelf |
ISBN-10 | 3-030-15631-1 / 3030156311 |
ISBN-13 | 978-3-030-15631-2 / 9783030156312 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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