Beyond the Golden Gate
Subtitle: oceanography, geology, biology, and environmental issues in the Gulf of the Farallones
By: edited by Herman A. Karl ... [et al.].
Contributors: Karl, Herman A.; Geological Survey (U.S.)
Series: Circular -- 1198; U.S. Geological Survey circular -- 1198.
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey; USGS Information Services [distributor]
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Reston, Va; Denver, CO
Subjects: Oceanography -- California -- Farallones, Gulf of the.; Marine ecology -- California -- Farallones, Gulf of the.; Coastal zone management -- California -- Farallones, Gulf of the.; Geology -- California -- Farallones, Gulf of the.; Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary (Calif.)
Other titles: Oceanography, geology, biology, and environmental issues in the Gulf of the Farallones
Table of contents: value: Techniques and technology of exploration in the Gulf of the Farallones -- Kaye Kinoshita and John L. Chin; value: Regional setting -- John L. Chin and Russell W. Graymer; value: Earthquakes, faults, and tectonics -- Holly F. Ryan, Stephanie L. Ross, and Russell W. Graymer; value: Landscape of the sea floor -- Herman A. Carl and William C. Schwab; value: Current patterns over the continental shelf and slope -- Marlene A. Noble; value: Sediment of the sea floor -- Herman A. Karl; value: Chemical composition of surface sediments on the sea floor -- Walter E. Dean and James V. Gardner; value: Heavy-mineral provinces on the continental shelf -- Florence L. Wong; value: Biology and ecological niches in the Gulf of the Farallones -- -- Phytoplankton / -- Gregg W. Langlois and Patricia Smith; value: Krill -- Dan Howard; value: Free-floating larvae of crabs, sea urchins, and rockfishes -- Stephen R. Wing; value: Salmon -- Peter Adams; value: Seabirds -- Peter Pyle; value: Marine mammals -- Jan Roletto; value: White sharks -- Scot Anderson; value: Continental slope communities -- Tom Laidig; value: Disposal of dredged material and other waste on the continental shelf and slope -- John L. Chin and Allan Ota; value: Search for containers of radioactive waste on the sea floor -- Herman A. Karl; value: Measuring radioactivity from waste drums on the sea floor -- David G. Jones, Philip D. Roberts, and Johannes Limburg.