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Ocean Sciences Subject Guide
Online version of McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology (9th ed.) with content from annual yearbooks, McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms and Science News.
Full-text encyclopedia of geographical places and features. Includes: demography; physical geography; political boundaries; points of interest; transportation lines; longitude, latitude, and elevations; pronunciations; official local government place-names and changed or variant names and spellings.
IN PRINT ONLY: S&E Library Reference QL713.2 .E63 2009
New articles have been added to the second edition to cover new developments in marine mammal science, such as those related to climate change and the interface of ecology and conservation, as well as those established topics not fully explored in the first edition. The text has been further improved by reorganization and by the division and fusion of articles for which the material has either grown or was previously split among several diverse articles.
Editor in chief, John H. Steele, Karl K. Turekian, and Steve A. Thorpe
Amsterdam : Elsevier ScienceDirect, c2008
Edited by Vivien Gornitz
Dordrecht, Netherlands : Springer, c2009
University and professional level compendium of chemistry, physics, molecular biology, mathematics, and engineering.
Complete full text of database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
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A comprehensive, integrated summary of the present state of geochemistry. It deals with all the major subjects in the field, ranging from the chemistry of the solar system to environmental geochemistry.
Deals with the present state of geophysics. Chapters include: Seismology and Structure of the Earth, Mineral Physics, Geodesy, Earthquake Seismology, Geomagnetism, rustal and Lithosphere Dynamics, Mantle Dynamics, Core Dynamics, Evolution of the Earth and Planets and Moons.
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