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Author = "Valentine, James W."
Title = "Evolutionary Paleoecology of the Marine Biosphere"
Publisher = "Prentice-Hall, Inc."
Year = "1973"
Pages = "511"
LOC = "QE 720 V34"
ISBN = "0-13-293720-4"
Table of contents:
1. The discipline of paleoecology 1,
2. Fundamental evolutionary principles and processes 17,
3. The ecological architecture of life 57,
4. Major features of the marine environment 90,
5. The mode of life and functional range of fossil organisms 147,
6. Ecological functions of populations and their evolution 226,
7. Community ecology and evolution 269,
8. The provincial level 337,
9. The biosphere level 373,
10. An approach to the ecological history of the marine
biosphere 409,
References 472,
Index 499" }
Author = "van Andel, Tjeerd"
Title = "Tales of an Old Ocean"
Publisher = "Stanford Alumni Association, Stanford, CA"
Year = "1977"
Pages = "164"
LOC = "77-73185"
Table of contents:
Introduction - Quest for the mysteries of the sea 1,
0.1 A brief history of oceanography 2,
0.2 The state of ocean science today 8,
1. No vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end 13,
1.1 Some puzzles and paradoxes 15,
1.2 Crucial new observations 16,
1.3 The concept of plate tectonics 20,
1.4 Consequences of plate tectonics 23,
1.5 The geological revolution 27,
2. The changing face of the sea dimly observed 31,
2.1 Reconstruction of old oceans 32,
2.2 Shifting shorelines 35,
2.3 The currents of the sea 38,
2.4 A short history of the ocean circulation 40,
2.5 The deep waters of the oceans 43,
2.6 Bottom water, calcium carbonate, and life 45,
2.7 Origin of the deep circulation in the oceans 46,
2.8 The remote past and the near future of the snow limit 49,
2.9 The origin of seawater and its constancy in time 51,
3. Watch the swirl of life in the water 55,
3.1 Food from the sea 57,
3.2 Can we increase the world's food supply? 59,
3.3 Oceanic circulation mirrored in marine life 63,
3.4 Catastrophic changes in marine life 67,
4. In grandfather's time you could skate every winter 75,
4.1 Climate and the oceans 77,
4.2 Climatic history of the distant past 81,
4.3 The last glacial episode 83,
4.4 Climate and history 85,
4.5 What is a significant climate change? 89,
4.6 Present and future climates: Controversy and confusion 93,
5. The salty sea goes up and down 101,
5.1 The changing level of the sea 102,
5.2 Sea level during the past 5,000 years 107,
5.3 Salt, man and society 111,
5.4 Salt economy and sea level 115,
6. Perils of the treasure hunt 119,
6.1 A plethora of nonliving resources 121,
6.2 Sea brines and geostills 125,
6.3 Harvesting the manganese nodule 129,
6.4 Who owns the sea? 134,
7. Attending marvels 143,
Reader's guide 161 " }
Author = "Von Arx, William S."
Title = "An Introduction to Physical Oceanography"
Publisher = "Addison-Wesley Publ. Co."
Year = "1962"
Pages = "422"
LOC = "61-5026"
Table of contents:
1. Early explorations and ideas 3,
2. On geological and astronomical backgrounds 19,
a. The geometry of the oceans 19,
b. The age of the oceans 24,
c. The origins of sea water 25,
d. Stability of the ocean basins 27,
e. Fluctuations of sea level 32,
f. Rigidity of the earth 33,
g. Figure of the earth 36,
h. Motions of the earth 38,
3. Tides and other waves 45,
a. The differential force of attraction 46,
b. The equilibrium tide 49,
c. The pendulum day 53,
d. Particle motions in simple waves 54,
e. The Kelvin wave 55,
f. Embayment tides 56,
g. Prediction of the real tide 58,
h. The tidal bore 61,
i. The tsunami 62,
j. Wave concepts 63,
k. Nontidal waves 64,
l. Refraction 74,
m. Diffraction 74,
n. Internal waves 76,
4. Fluid mechanics 80,
a. Pressure 80,
b. Continuity 83,
c. Inertial space 84,
d. The Coriolis force 86,
e. Pressure gradient forces 89,
f. Equation of motion 89,
g. Euler's expansion 93,
h. The steady state 93,
i. Geostrophic motion 95,
j. Margules' equation 97,
k. Meander motion 98,
l. Inertial motion 101,
m. Cyclostrophic motion 104,
n. Vorticity 105,
o. The vorticity equation 107,
p. Frictional effects 111,
q. Ekman spiral 113,
5. Characteristics of sea water 118,
a. Density 118,
b. Salinity 120,
c. Temperature-salinity diagram 125,
d. Adiabatic effects 128,
e. Stratification 130,
f. Heat capacity 133,
g. Penetration of visible light 134,
6. Advective processes 140,
a. Energy units 140,
b. Insolation 141,
c. Greenhouse effect 144,
d. Heat distribution 146,
e. Heat transport 148,
f. Structure of the atmosphere 150,
g. The planetary wind field 152,
h. Coupling 154,
i. The wind-driven circulation 165,
j. Ekman model ofthe barotropoic ocean circulation 165,
k. Iselin's concept of the North Atlantic circulation 167,
l. Torque of the surface winds 169,
m. Vorticity theory of the wind-driven circulation 170,
n. The observed circulation 172,
o. Equatorial currents 176,
7. Convective processes 180,
a. Ocean climates 180,
b. Heat budget of the oceans 184,
c. Flux of sensible heat 185,
d. Oceanic radiation 187,
e. Evaporation 187,
f. Conditioning of the surface water 190,
g. Lamination of water masses 190,
h. Climatic overturning 201,
i. Thermohaline motions 203,
8. Current measurements by direct methods 213,
a. Units of measurement 214,
b. Eulerian methods 217,
c. Langrangian methods 223,
d. Position 231,
e. Synoptic charts 233,
9. Current measurements by indirect methods 244,
a. The geostrophic method 245,
b. The electromagnetic method 260,
c. Combined uses of electromagnetic and geostrophic
methods 279,
d. Prospects 280,
10. Laboratory models 285,
a. Similarity and characteristic numbers 285,
b. Models of small inshore areas 289,
c. Models of intermediate size areas 297,
d. Models of oceans 299,
e. Vorticity modeling 301,
11. The Gulf Stream problem 312,
a. Geography of the Gulf Stream system 312,
b. Superficial appearances 314,
c. Origins of Gulf Stream water 320,
d. Main thermocline layer 323,
e. Structure of the current 323,
f. Seasonal changes 330,
g. Synoptic oceanography 332,
h. Multiple currents 336,
i. Rapid changes in the Gulf Stream 339,
j. Tidal modulation of flow rates 346,
k. A note on methods 348,
Appendices 351,
Name index 405,
Subject index 411 " }
Author = "Von Schwind, Joseph J."
Title = "Geophysical Fluid Dynamics for Oceanographers"
Publisher = "Prentice-Hall, Inc."
Year = "1980"
Pages = "307"
LOC = "GC 239 V66"
ISBN = "0-13-352591-0"
Table of contents:
1. Review of vectors and cartesian tensors 1,
2. Basic concepts and principles in geophysical
fluid dynamics 21,
3. Wind-driven ocean circulation 179,
3.1 Introduction 179,
3.2 Sverdrup's study of wind-driven currents in a
baroclinic ocean 180,
3.3 Westward intensification of wind-driven ocean
currents 189,
3.4 Munk's theory of the wind-driven ocean circulation 201,
3.5 Qualitative effects of the nonlinear erms in a large
scale model of a western boundary current 218,
4. The hydrothermodynamic equations of a binary fluid 226,
4.1 Introduction 225,
4.2 Generation and dissipation of mechanical energy 226,
4.3 Conservation of total energy 231,
4.4 The first law of thermodynamics 234,
4.5 Entropy and the second law of thermodynamics 235,
4.6 Further consequences of Kelvin's hypotheisis 241,
4.7 Determination of the thermodynamic properties of
sea water 250,
5. Large scale ocean waves in the absence of tidal forces 255,
5.1 Introduction 255,
5.2 The long wave equations 258,
5.3 Waves of the first class 261,
5.4 Plane Sverdrup waves 264,
5.5 Plane Poincare waves 274,
5.6 Plane Kelvin and Proudman waves 280,
5.7 Plane Rossby waves 287,
Bibliography 293,
Books for supplementary reading 297,
Index 299 " }
S. Baum
Dept. of Oceanography
Texas A&M University
baum@astra.tamu.edu