INTRODUCTION TO OCEAN SCIENCES - Reefimages

ii Brief Contents CHAPTER 1 The Ocean Planet 1 CHAPTER 2 History and Importance of Ocean Studies 15 CHAPTER 3 Studying the Oceans 35 CHAPTER 4 Plate Tectonics: Evolution of the Ocean Floor 59 CHAPTER 5 Water and Seawater 89 CHAPTER 6 Ocean Sediments 115 CHAPTER 7 Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions 141 CHAPTER 8 Ocean Circulation 175 CHAPTER 9 Waves 205 CHAPTER …