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The world's oceans : geography, history, and environment / Rainer F. Buschmann and Lance Nolde, editors

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (xii, 433 pages : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781440843525
  • 144084352X
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: World's oceans.DDC classification:
  • 304.209162 23
LOC classification:
  • GC21 .W67 2018eb
Online resources:
Contents:
The Arctic Ocean -- The Atlantic Ocean -- The Indian Ocean -- The Pacific Ocean -- The Southern Ocean -- Oceans and seas in world culture -- The changing nature of ocean boundaries -- The shipping industry -- Ocean exploration -- Environmental issues and the world's oceans -- Adriatic sea -- Age of sail -- Antikythera wreck -- Aquaculture -- Art and the sea -- Atlantic galleon exchange -- Atlantis -- Atocha wreck -- Austronesians -- Beachcombers (transculturites) -- Belitung wreck -- Bermuda Triangle -- Bikini Atoll (nuclear Pacific) -- Burial at sea -- Carbon cycle -- Celestial navigation -- Climate change -- Coastal erosion and deposition -- The Columbian exchange -- Commodities -- Cook, James (1728-1779) -- Coral reefs -- Coriolis effect -- Cousteau, Jacques (1910-1997) -- Cross-cultural encounters -- Da Gama, Vasco (1469-1524) -- Deep sea exploration -- Earle, Sylvia (1935- ) -- El Niño/La Niña -- Estuaries -- Exclusive economic zone -- Fortified wines (port and madeira) -- Glaciers -- Great Barrier Reef (Australia) -- Great Pacific garbage patch -- The Great Wave Off Kanagawa -- Groot (Grotius), Hugo de (1583-1645) -- Heyerdahl, Thor (1914-2002) -- Hokule'a -- Hurricanes and typhoons -- Ibn Majid, Ahmad (c. 1432-c. 1500) -- Ice melt -- Islands -- Law of the sea -- Literature and the sea -- Little ice age -- Littoral -- Magellan, Ferdinand (1480-1521) -- The Manila Galleon -- Marine pollution -- Maritime archaeology -- Maritime deities -- Maritime empires -- Maritime organizations -- Maritime trade -- Mediterranean Sea -- Mermaids -- MH370 -- Moby-Dick -- Mu (continent of) -- Music and seafarers -- Myths and legends -- Nansen, Fridtjof (1861-1930) -- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) -- Navigation -- Nor-easter -- Northwest Passage -- Ocean acidification -- Ocean currents -- Ocean tides -- Panama Canal -- Piailug, Mau (1932-2010) -- Piracy -- Plate tectonics -- Poseidon/Neptune -- Reefs -- Salinity -- Sargasso Sea -- Sea Ice -- Sea level rise -- Sea monsters -- The sea peoples -- Sharks -- The South China Sea -- Suez Canal -- Surfing -- Terra Australis incognita -- Thalassocracy -- Tomol -- Tsunami -- Tupaia (c. 1725-1770) -- United Nations convention on the law of the sea -- The vikings -- Warships: North American colonial wars -- Waves -- Whales and whaling -- Zheng He (1371-c. 1430)
Summary: "This single-volume resource explores the five major oceans of the world, addressing current issues such as sea rise and climate change and explaining the significance of the oceans from historical, geographic, and cultural perspectives"-- Provided by publisher
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"This single-volume resource explores the five major oceans of the world, addressing current issues such as sea rise and climate change and explaining the significance of the oceans from historical, geographic, and cultural perspectives"-- Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-411) and index

The Arctic Ocean -- The Atlantic Ocean -- The Indian Ocean -- The Pacific Ocean -- The Southern Ocean -- Oceans and seas in world culture -- The changing nature of ocean boundaries -- The shipping industry -- Ocean exploration -- Environmental issues and the world's oceans -- Adriatic sea -- Age of sail -- Antikythera wreck -- Aquaculture -- Art and the sea -- Atlantic galleon exchange -- Atlantis -- Atocha wreck -- Austronesians -- Beachcombers (transculturites) -- Belitung wreck -- Bermuda Triangle -- Bikini Atoll (nuclear Pacific) -- Burial at sea -- Carbon cycle -- Celestial navigation -- Climate change -- Coastal erosion and deposition -- The Columbian exchange -- Commodities -- Cook, James (1728-1779) -- Coral reefs -- Coriolis effect -- Cousteau, Jacques (1910-1997) -- Cross-cultural encounters -- Da Gama, Vasco (1469-1524) -- Deep sea exploration -- Earle, Sylvia (1935- ) -- El Niño/La Niña -- Estuaries -- Exclusive economic zone -- Fortified wines (port and madeira) -- Glaciers -- Great Barrier Reef (Australia) -- Great Pacific garbage patch -- The Great Wave Off Kanagawa -- Groot (Grotius), Hugo de (1583-1645) -- Heyerdahl, Thor (1914-2002) -- Hokule'a -- Hurricanes and typhoons -- Ibn Majid, Ahmad (c. 1432-c. 1500) -- Ice melt -- Islands -- Law of the sea -- Literature and the sea -- Little ice age -- Littoral -- Magellan, Ferdinand (1480-1521) -- The Manila Galleon -- Marine pollution -- Maritime archaeology -- Maritime deities -- Maritime empires -- Maritime organizations -- Maritime trade -- Mediterranean Sea -- Mermaids -- MH370 -- Moby-Dick -- Mu (continent of) -- Music and seafarers -- Myths and legends -- Nansen, Fridtjof (1861-1930) -- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) -- Navigation -- Nor-easter -- Northwest Passage -- Ocean acidification -- Ocean currents -- Ocean tides -- Panama Canal -- Piailug, Mau (1932-2010) -- Piracy -- Plate tectonics -- Poseidon/Neptune -- Reefs -- Salinity -- Sargasso Sea -- Sea Ice -- Sea level rise -- Sea monsters -- The sea peoples -- Sharks -- The South China Sea -- Suez Canal -- Surfing -- Terra Australis incognita -- Thalassocracy -- Tomol -- Tsunami -- Tupaia (c. 1725-1770) -- United Nations convention on the law of the sea -- The vikings -- Warships: North American colonial wars -- Waves -- Whales and whaling -- Zheng He (1371-c. 1430)

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