Title: Smithsonian ocean : our water, our world /
Authors: Cramer, Deborah.
Publisher: Smithsonian Books,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Marine biology; Marine ecology
Abstract: The author of Great Waters: An Atlantic Passage identifies a living partnership between the earth and its life, explaining the comparatively new responsibility of human beings in protecting the sea in order to safeguard climate and environmental interests.
Contents: pt. 1. Beginnings -- Eden in the depths -- First land, first sea -- pt. 2. Touched by the sea -- Building the basin -- Breathing -- Circle of water -- Explosion of life -- A green sea -- Arrival of fishes -- Climate from the sea -- Mass extinction -- The Anthropocene -- pt. 3. Touching the sea -- The long migration -- Edge of continents -- Rhythms on a reef -- Far ends of the earth -- Where rivers meet the sea -- Our water, our world -- Maps / Timeline.