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Aquaculture Perspective of Multi-Use Sites in the Open Ocean This volume addresses the potential for combining large-scale marine aquaculture of macroalgae, molluscs, crustaceans, and finfish, with offshore structures, primarily those associated with energy production, such as wind turbines and oil-drilling platforms.
Ocean is your guide to this most mysterious part of the natural world. It explores the geography of the oceans, which includes volcanoes forming a "Ring of Fire", trenches 10 km (6 miles) deep, hydrothermal vents, ice shelves, and hundreds of sea mountains and even waterfalls.
This text starts at understanding how the Earth and it's oceans formed to understanding the geology of modern ocean basins and their ever changing shorelines, the physics of ocean currents, basic biologic functions that effect ocean chemistry, and the future of the oceans concerning climate change.
The 5th edition of Introduction to Ocean Sciences is an open source textbook that is free for anyone to download, read and print for personal use only (Donations are welcome - scroll down to find how).
This textbook covers physical-oceanographic processes, theories, data, and measurements, targeted at upper-division undergraduates and graduate students in oceanography, meteorology, and ocean engineering.
This overview is meant to provide context for the following sections, which describe the exquisite adaptations of deep sea fish and marine communities living on and around seamounts, deep sea corals, hydrothermal vents, cold seeps, and even whale skeletons.
"This dramatic, thought-provoking, and all-encompassing visual guide reveals the power and majesty of the seas and oceans, which cover more than two-thirds of the earth's surface. Navigate the mysteries and marvels of the deep, using a combination of breathtaking photography and expertly researched text."--book jacket.