Sources of figures and data

• Fig. 4: http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/inside.html
• Fig. 5: http://geology.er.usgs.gov/eastern/plates.html
• Fig. 6: http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/Vigil.html
• Fig. 7: http://courses.missouristate.edu/ejm893f/creative/glg110/Cdriftplates.html
• Fig. 8: http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/himalaya.html ,The Himalayas: Two continents collide
  
• Fig. 10: From Geological-Geophysical Atlas of the Indian Ocean, Pergamon Press, Oxford U.K.,1975
  
• Fig. 11: AAPG Memoir 26, page 83, 1977
  
• Figs. 12, 20, and 22: Temperature data - S. Levitus and T.P. Boyer, NOAA Atlas NESDIS 4, 1994
  
• Fig. 13: Salinity data - S. Levitus, R. Burgett and T.P. Boyer, NOAA Atlas NESDIS 3, 1994
  
• Fig. 15: http://sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov/overview/climate-water.html
  
• Figs. 17 and 21: Wind data - US Navy
  
• Fig. 18: Current data - NOAA, USA
  
• Figs. 19 and 26: Sea level data - Survey of India, Dehradun, India
  
• Figs. 21 and 23: Rainfall data - P. Xie and P.A. Arkin, Bulletin of the American
  Meteorological Society, Vol. 78, pages 2539-2558, 1997
  
• Figs. 24 and 27: Adapted from Waves, tides, and shallow-water processes, The Oceanography Course Team, The Open University, Butterworth - Heinemann, Oxford U.K., 1999
  
• Fig. 29: http://www.mos.org/oceans/planet/cycle.html
  
• Fig. 33: Derived from satellite sensor SeaWiFS (NASA)

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