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1 online resource (216 pages) |
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""Oceanography in the Next Decade""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""OCEANOGRAPHY AND SOCIETY""; ""MAINTAINING EXCELLENCE""; ""FUTURE OF OCEANOGRAPHIC SCIENCE""; ""CONDUCT OF OCEANOGRAPHIC SCIENCE""; ""TOWARD NEW PARTNERSHIPS""; ""Communication""; ""Agency Responsibility for Basic Science""; ""Responsibility of Academic Institutions""; ""Sharing of Academic and Federal Resources""; ""Development of Instrumentation""; ""Transfer of Responsibility""; ""Data Management and Exchange""; ""Specific Partnerships""; ""1 Introduction""; ""IMPORTANCE OF THE OCEAN TO SOCIETY"" |
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""MAINTAINING EXCELLENCE""""U.S. OCEANOGRAPHY SINCE WORLD WAR II""; ""U.S. STYLE OF LARGE PROGRAM MANAGEMENT""; ""OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL""; ""THIS REPORT""; ""Objectives""; ""Contents""; ""2 Toward New Partnerships in Ocean Sciences""; ""GENERAL PARTNERSHIP THEMES""; ""Communication""; ""Agency Responsibility to Basic Science""; ""Responsibility of Academic Institutions""; ""Sharing of Academic and Federal Resources""; ""Development of Instrumentation""; ""Transfer of Responsibility""; ""Data Management and Exchange""; ""SPECIFIC PARTNERSHIPS"" |
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""National Science Foundation""""Department of the Navy""; ""National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration""; ""Environmental Protection Agency""; ""Minerals Management Service""; ""National Aeronautics and Space Administration""; ""Department of Energy""; ""U.S. Geological Survey""; ""3 Future Directions in Ocean Sciences""; ""THE SCIENCE OF OCEANOGRAPHY""; ""DIRECTIONS FOR PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY""; ""Summary""; ""Introduction""; ""Global Ocean Observing System""; ""Major Research Topics for the Coming Decade""; ""Ocean Modeling""; ""Ocean Mixing""; ""Methods"" |
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""DIRECTIONS FOR MARINE GEOCHEMISTRY""""Summary""; ""Introduction""; ""The Ocean Reactor""; ""Fluxes""; ""Redistribution""; ""Sinks""; ""Marine Organic Substances""; ""Future Directions""; ""Analytical Methods""; ""Improving Our Knowledge of Fluxes""; ""Understanding Redistribution and Removal in the Ocean""; ""Reading the Record""; ""DIRECTIONS FOR MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS""; ""Summary""; ""Introduction""; ""Oceanic Ridge and Lithosphere""; ""Mantle Flow, Melt Generation, and Magma Transport Beneath Mid-Ocean Ridges""; ""Processes That Transform Magma into Oceanic Crust"" |
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""Processes That Control the Segmentation and Episodicity of Lithospheric Accretion""""Physical, Chemical, and Biological Processes Involved in Interactions Between Circulating Seawater and the Lithosphere""; ""Distribution and Intensity of Mid-Ocean Hydrothermal Venting""; ""Off-Ridge Processes""; ""Chemical and Isotopic Record of Mantle Convection""; ""Variation of Melt Production (Convective Vigor) Through Time""; ""Structure and Composition of Oceanic Crust""; ""Knowledge of Stresses Acting on Oceanic Lithosphere and Intraplate Deformation""; ""Ocean Margins"" |
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""Fault Dynamics and Lithospheric Deformation"" |
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Print version record |
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Oceanography.
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oceanography.
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Oceanography.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780309598088 |
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0309598087 |
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