Keith A. Sverdrup,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Alyn C. Duxbury,
University of Washington Alison B. Duxbury,
Seattle Community College
ISBN: 0072826789 Copyright year: 2006
What's New
What’s New in the 5th Edition of Fundamentals of Oceanography?
• In chapter 2, new sections have been added discussing the origin of the oceans and evidence for extraterrestrial oceans in our solar system.
• The discussion of plate tectonics and plate boundaries in chapter 3 has been extensively revised and a number of new figures have been added.
• In chapter 5 the section on carbon dioxide as a buffer has been rewritten and expanded.
• The discussion of El Niño-Southern Oscillation in chapter 6 has been completely revised and new figures have been added to further illustrate it.
• Chapter 7 updates information about the National Energy Laboratory in Hawaii and The Great Sneaker Spill.
• Waves and Tides (chapter 8) has been reviewed and revised with special emphasis placed on wave sorting, tidal forces, and energy from tidal currents.
• Environmental issues in chapter 9 have been updated.
• All primary production values in chapter 10 are new, and new information on ice worms and the Lost City vent field have been included.
• Chapter 11 has been extensively rewritten: information on bacteria and red tides has been updated, and a section on viruses has been added.
• Also in chapter 11, all fisheries data have been amended from the last available FAO reports.
• In chapter 12 there is new information on tropical coral reefs and deep water coral reefs; benthic harvests are extracted from the latest available FAO data.
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