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Table 2.15 Average surface temperature of the oceans between parallels of latitude (°C)...

A circumnavigation of the world s oceans between 1978-1980 (18), further indicated that broad expanses of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans away from major tanker lanes and shipping routes contained little or no tar, whereas tar pollution was prevalent in the Mediterranean, Java Sea and Red Sea, and in western European and Northwest African coastal areas. 

Tanker Torrey Canyon Atlantic Ocean, between Isles of Scilly and the western coast of Cornwall, UK 1967 March 18 121,000... 

Bates, N., and Hansell, D.A. (1999) Hydrographic and biogeochemical signals in the surface ocean between Chesapeake Bay and Bermuda. Mar. Chem. 67, 1-16. 

Labeyrie L. D. (1992) Changes in the vertical structure of the North Atlantic Ocean between glacial and modem times. Quat. Sci. Rev. 11, 401-413. 

Dissolved inorganic phosphorus, DIP, versus dissolved inorganic nitrate (DIN, which is mostly NOf) concentrations in the world s oceans between 1000 and 5000 m (plotted using Ocean Data View). Dark points represent data from the North Atlantic and lighter points are data from the North Pacific. Lines indicate linear regressions through the data from the Atlantic and Pacific. 

With the accumulation of a global data set from glacial age sediments, Boyle and colleagues (Boyle, 1992) were able to demonstrate that Cd increases in the Atlantic and decreases in the Pacific resulted in a constant Cd inventoiy for the entire ocean between glacial and interglacial times (and, by proxy, a constant nutrient inventory). These results represent a major departure from the 5 C evidence, which... 

Out in the ocean between the ridges and the subduc-tion zones, the crust is composed of three main parts. The top layer, Layer 1, is sedimentary cover up to 1 km thick... 

The crust is basically the akin of the earth. It only accounts for 5 percent of the eeurth s thickness. It comes in two forms continental and oceanic. The continental crust is rich in silica and alumina minerals. The oceanic crust is of a silica magnesia cco osition. Due to the processes of nature some of the continental crust is becoming oceanic and vice versa The crust s thinnest points can be found under the oceans, between three and five miles thick. The oceans form... 

Neutron activation analyses of sixteen samples of sea xmter (eight in duplicate) taken at six widely spaced stations in the Central Atlantic Ocean between 16° N and Equator (depths below 1000 m,) showed that the lanthanide patterns are relatively conservative characteristics of water masses. The differences in lanthanide distribution and total abundance between different water masses are small but significant. The absolute mass abundances of the lanthanides can be illustrated by the following values for North Atlantic Deep Water ... 

Measurements by Quay et al. (1992) of the CO2 flux from the atmosphere to the ocean between the years 1970 and 1990 was 2.1 Pg C/yr on average. Another 1.4 0.1 PgC/yrofC02 were removed by the biosphere (Quay et al., 1992). Over the 20-year period in Quay s study the average annual anthropogenic CO2 emissions were 7.0 Pg C/yr of which 3.8 Pg C/yr left the atmosphere. Thus, 55% of the anthropogenic CO2 emissions leaving the atmosphere entered the ocean during the period 1970-1990. 

In 1979, 5.9 million fishermen made 39.2 million trips - 7 million in New York State, and caught 1.2 million striped bass in the Atlantic Ocean between Main and North Carolina. Sierra Club V. US Army Corps of Engineers (1982), 536 F. Supp., p. 1237. U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (1982a). 

Comparison of results between GEOSECS and TTO/SAVE shows that the bomb radiocarbon inventory has increased by 36% for the region north of 10° N, by 69% for the equatorial region and by 71% for the region south of 10° S. These data reflect the radiocarbon uptake for the Atlantic Ocean between 1973 (GEOSECS) and 1985 (TTO/SAVE). Along with global bomb radiocarbon distribution, this information provides crucial constraints for the carbon cycle in the ocean. Preliminary results from CGC-91, one of the WOCE cruises, show that the observed increase in bomb radiocarbon inventory from 1974 to 1991 in the northern Pacific Ocean is consistent with the first-order prediction from a box-diffusion ocean model. 

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