Oceanography And Marine Biology (Oceanography and Marine Biology)
Contributors: R. N. Gibson (Editor); Margaret Barnes (Editor)
Publisher: CRC
Published: January 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 650
ISBN-13: 9780080350653
Subjects: Marine biology; Oceanography (seas); Yearbooks, annuals, almanacs; Hydrographic Biology; Oceanography (General); Science; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Biology - Marine Biology; Science / Marine Biology
First sentence: The marginal ice zone is an oceanographic front in which a transition from dense (those waters completely covered with ice) pack ice to one completely free of ice occurs (Fig. 1).