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050 00 $aQ115$b.C79 2003
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100 1 $aCorfield, R. M.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr96014443
245 14 $aThe silent landscape :$bthe scientific voyage of HMS Challenger /$cRichard Corfield.
260 $aWashington, D.C. :$bJoseph Henry Press,$c[2003], ©2003.
300 $axiv, 285 pages :$billustrations, map ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 257-259) and index.
505 00 $tThreshold of the Deep -- $tThe Desert Under the Sea -- $tThe Restless Earth -- $tKingdoms of Mud and Lime -- $tClimate Triggers and Bermudan Secrets -- $tKelp and Cold Light -- $tThe Library of Time -- $tThe Grim Latitudes -- $tThe Lost World -- $tThe Echoes of Evolution -- $tThe Groaning Planet -- $tDreams of Big Science.
520 1 $a"Sailing three-and-a-half years and 69,000 nautical miles, the story of Challenger is the stuff of legend. Scientists and crew alike braved the stifling heat of the tropics for months on end only to suffer the stupefying cold of the Antarctic, enduring danger on the high seas, and risking their very lives in the pursuit of knowledge. As the first sea voyage devoted exclusively to science, the Challenger expedition is perhaps the greatest oceanographic mission of all time, surpassing even Charles Darwin's celebrated passage aboard HMS Beagle. Indeed, among the more important objectives set before the crew of Challenger was the mandate to gather the evidence necessary to prove or refute Darwin's daring new theory of evolution. Put simply, many saw the Challenger expedition as the ultimate battle between God and science." "The undertaking was nothing short of a roaring success. Challenger dredged up hundreds of samples from the seafloor and mapped enormous areas of undersea terrain. Most startling of all, though, was the revelation that the ocean was much more than a barren graveyard that mutely reflected Earth's past - it was not a silent landscape after all. Instead, these intrepid explorers found a gloriously complex ecosystem teeming with life, an ecological and geological treasure trove that could scarcely be imagined from a landlocked perspective."--BOOK JACKET.
611 20 $aChallenger Expedition$d(1872-1876)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2003015598
650 0 $aOceanography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85093937
852 00 $boff,sci$hQ115$i.C79 2003