Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1347309 in Books
- Published on: 2001-08-10
- Original language:
English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 576 pages
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Synopsis
New edition of a text in which Garrison (U. of Southern California) provides an overview of the marine sciences. The 18 chapters cover the ocean world; a history of oceanography; plate tectonics; continental margins and ocean basins; sediments; water and ocean structure; seawater chemistry; atmospheric and ocean circulation; wave dynamics and wind