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... outunder the eyes of many readers. Therefore, these volumes are passedfrom one to another, read over and over, referred to again and again;and it often happens that they find their way back to their ... am rather late; or have notothers been here before me?" "Yes, Herr Liedenbrock; the labours of MM. Olafsen and Povelsen,pursued by order of the king, the r...

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... Press, 2004. Marshall, George W. The Winning of the War in Europe and the Pacific: Biennial Report of the Chief of Staff of the United States Army, July 1, 1943 to June 30, 1945, to the Secretary of War.New York: ... fundamentalists see themselves as victims of a worldwide Jewish conspiracy based in free masonry, extending to the construction of the Suez Canal...

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... boundary of the Southern Ocean is a feature called the Antarctic GEOGRAPHY OF THE OCEANS 21 thousand). In addition, the Baltic Sea, unlike the North Sea, is separated from the warming effect of the ... than the Atlantic’s average of 35 parts per 20 OCEANS GEOLOGY OF THE OCEANS 31 calculate Earth s likely temperature 1,865 miles (3,000 km) beneath the s...

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... fraction of the wind speed. The fastest major surface currents in the world, the Gulf Stream of the North Atlantic and the Kuroshio Current of the North Pacific, flow at speeds of only 2.5 4. 5 mph (4 7 ... others, causes the atmosphere to circulate over the planet’s surface. The Tropics (that part of Earth s surface lying between the tropic of Cancer in t...

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... for most of Earth s history the great majority of life-forms evolved in the oceans. The procession of life The earliest of Earth s organisms were probably archaebacte- ria (“archae” from the Greek ... prop- erly rather than simply suck or filter. By 250 million years ago 30-foot (9-m)-long sharks were traveling the seas, biting into other fish with their powerful jaws....

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... governs the sex of hatchlings. Typically, cooler eggs (below 82°F or 28°C) develop BIOLOGY OF THE OCEANS 125 chase other seabirds to rob them of their fish catch, and they nest near colonies of other ... phytoplankton. Close to hydrothermal (hot-water) vents, chemosynthetic bacteria are ECOLOGY OF THE OCEANS CHAPTER 6 135 ECOLOGY OF THE OCEANS 141 fronds, where...

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... direction of the four points of the compass (north, south, east, west). In the Northern Hemi- sphere the North Star (Polaris) shows north. In the Southern Hemisphere the cluster of stars called the ... landed in a place they called Vinland (“land of the vine”) because of the abundance of berry-bearing plants they found there. In the 1960s archaeologists excavat...

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... pages 203–204). The sea’s military importance Since the time of the great civilizations of ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome in the first millennium B.C.E., the ocean 180 OCEANS THE USES OF THE OCEANS ... in the near future. 194 OCEANS THE USES OF THE OCEANS 193 attractive to prospectors. By the late 1990s more than 30 percent of the world’s oil was b...

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... addition, the specter of global warm- ing looms large. The future of the oceans Many scientists suspect that global warming is the greatest short-term threat to the well-being of life on land and in the sea. ... reaching the surface of the Earth. In the last two decades thinning of the ozone layer over the Southern Ocean has resulted in a decline in the pr...

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... Union (IUCN) 209, 210 worms 25, 105 , 108 , 109 , 111, 141, 142, 150, 158 Z Zheng Ho 163, 165 zooplankton 104 106 in deep-ocean sediments 42 definition of 101 in food chain 105 106 , 136–137 iron-seeding and ... grams of seawater satellite remote sensing the use of satellites to detect fea- tures of Earth s surface 250 OCEANS plankton 67–68, 100 101 . See also phytopla...

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... the south of Australia mantle that part of the Earth s interior lying between the outer edge of the inner core and the underside of the crust meadow-steppe STEPPE grassland lying to the south of the ... covers the surface of a plant leaf lithosphere the uppermost part of the solid Earth, comprising the crust and upper MANTLE llanero one of the...

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... up the question of animals demands once it is no longer possible to defi ne the plurality of animals within the terms provided by the fi gure of the animal. The complemen- tarity between the ... part of an actualised relation. It does both. Jews and animals, in being there, make demands. These demands, however, have their greatest exigency once they can be loca...

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... up before the onset of nuclear reactions in the proto -Sun. Such resonances may expedite the onset of nuclear ignition in the proto -Sun and the redistribution and loss of the proto -Sun s angular ... found to show good correlation between the polar field at the minimum and the strength of the next sunspot cycle when the turbulent diffusiv- ity inside the conve...

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