Marine Biology and Ocean Science
by August Anson
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This is a hardcover marine biology and oceanography textbook, covering topics as diverse as whales, whaling, tall ships, and ocean exploration, to tides, waves, and currents, sea turtles, coral reefs, plankton, and marine invertebrates.
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marine biology, oceanography, science, textbooks, tides, oceans, currents, whales, whaling, sharks, fish, coral reefs, seabirds, beaches, sea turtles, sea otters, dolphins, sea cows, piranhas, marine invertebrates, algae, sea grasses, plate tectonics, diatoms, dinoflagellates, foraminifera, zooplankton, phytoplankton, salinity, pressure, light, chemistry of water, physical properties of water, African lungfish, coelacanths, bioluminescenceShowing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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Marine Biology and Ocean Science
1991-12; revised 1996, Balaena Books Inc
Hardcover
in English
- 1996
0962409413 9780962409417
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Marine Biology and Ocean Science
December 1990, Balaena Books
Hardcover
- 1996
0962409405 9780962409400
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""From years of tradition, we know our home as "Planet Earth," but from some points of view, we could just as easily call ourselves "The Water Planet" or "Planet Ocean.""
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Illustrations include numerous paintings such as "Eight Bells," "The Fog Warning," and "Undertow" by Winslow Homer; "Bryde's Whales," "Sei Whales," and "Basking Sharks" by Richard Ellis; "Christopher Columbus" by Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio, and "Ferdinand Magellan" and "Juan Sebastian del Cano" by Augusto Meneses. (These also appear in the hardcover edition.)
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This is a 350 page hard-cover marine biology textbook that surveys both marine biology and oceanography, covering topics as diverse as marine biology, oceanography, tides, oceans, currents, whales, whaling, and ships and personages from the HMS Challenger to Ferdinand Magellan, Christopher Columbus, James Cook, buccaneers, Eratothenes, Vasco da Gama, Bartholomew Dias, Juan Sebastian del Cano, Edward Forges, Charles Darwin, and Alfred Wegener. Many notable paintings by Winslow Homer and Richard Ellis grace its pages and its cover.
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| March 26, 2024 | Edited by logosergon | fix typo in subject name Eratosthenes |
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