NS 1300 Emergence of Modern Science

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NS 1300 Emergence of Modern Science

• Oceanography

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Hydrologic Cycle
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Ocean Floor

• Continental Shelf
• Continental Slope
• Submarine Canyons
• Deep Sea Fans
• Marginal Plateaus
• Continental Rise
• Abyssal Floor
• Abyssal Plains
• Abyssal Hills
• Abyssal Rise
• Seamounts

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Ocean Ridge System

• Mid-Ocean Ridges
• Rift Valleys

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Deep Sea Trenches

• Subduction Zones
• Back-Arc Basins
• Clastic Wedges

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Biological Oceanography

• Plankton
• Nekton
• Diurnal Migration
• Match-Mismatch Hypothesis
• Benthos
• Marine Snow
• Photic Zone
• Thermocline

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Chemical Oceanography

• Salinity
• Heat Budget
• Residence Time

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Physical Oceanography

• Thermohaline Circulation
• AABW
• ABW
• Coriolis Effect
• Currents
• Gyres

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Sea Level
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Glacial Cycles

• Why Glaciers
• Land at the Poles
• Global Temperature
• Glacial Cycles
• Glacial Maximum
• Glacial Minimum
• Interglacial Periods

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Milankovitch Cycles