Explore the oceans on the Internet and in books!
Internet
- URL: http://www.mos.org/oceans/. Learn about our global seas in Oceans
ALIVE!
- URL: http://www.onr.navy.mil/focus/ocean/default.htm.
Office of Naval Research (USA) site. Contains considerable
information on oceans and oceanography.
- URL: http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/marinebio/challenger.html. Brief history of the
pioneering expedition of HMS Challenger, which gave birth to modern
oceanography.
- URL: http://www.epa.gov/owow/estuaries/kids/. Explore the world of
estuaries.
- URL:http://www.mangroveindia.org/. All about the mangroves found along the
Indian coast.
- URL: http://www.nio.org/jsp/tsunami.jsp. Information on the 26 December
2004 tsunami. Also contains links to other sites.
Books
- The ocean basins: Their structure and evolution. Open University, U.K., 1998.
- Seawater: Its composition, properties and behaviour. Open University, U.K.,
2002.
- Ocean circulation. Open University, U.K., 2001.
- Waves, tides and shallow-water processes. Open University, U.K., 2002.
- Ocean chemistry and deep-sea sediments. Open University, U.K., 2001.
- Biological oceanography: An introduction. C.M. Lalli and T.R. Parsons. Open
University, U.K., 1997.
- Planet Earth: Cosmology, geology and the evolution of life and environment.
C. Emiliani. Cambridge University Press, U.K., 1992.
- Our affair with El Nino. S.G.H. Philander. Princeton University Press, U.S.A.,
2004.
- Indian estuaries. S.Z. Qasim. Allied Publishers, New Delhi, India, 2003.
- Tsunami: An underrated hazard. E. Bryant. Cambridge University Press,
U.K., 2001.
- The Oceans, their Physics, Chemistry, and General Biology. H.U. Sverdrup,
M.W. Johnson, R.H. Fleming. URL: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt167nb66r/. A classic book on oceanography. Technical.
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Books 1-6 are published by Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford,
U.K. in association with the Open University.
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