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Smithsonian ocean : our water, our world / Deborah Cramer.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780061343834 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0061343838 (alk. paper)
- Physical Description: 295 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 29 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Smithsonian Books in association with HarperCollins, 2008.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [280]-290) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | BEGINNINGS. Eden in the depths -- First land, first sea -- 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 -- 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 -- Timeline. |
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| Subject: | Marine biology. Marine ecology. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Kirtland Community College Library | QH 91 .C73 2008 | 30538292 | General Collection | Available | - |