Articles about oceans
The Strangelove Ocean
Strangelove oceans are nasty things no matter what they really are.
http://geology.about.com/od/extinction/a/strangelove.htm
Seven Things You Need to Know about the Ocean
Ocean literacy is based on just seven essential principles.
http://geology.about.com/od/regional_geology/a/sealiteracy.htm
Observing the Deep Sea
The mid-ocean rift system accounts for a large fraction of the Earth's heat flow and geochemical cycles, but the rifts are almost entirely hidden under the ...
http://geology.about.com/od/regional_geology/a/deepseaobservs.htm
DSDP/ODP/IODP, the Greatest Science Program in History
It began as the Deep Sea Drilling Project, became the Ocean Drilling Program in 1983, and in October 2003 started its third incarnation as the Integrated ...
http://geology.about.com/cs/escibasics/a/aa101203a.htm
Age of the Ocean Floor
Very little ocean floor is older than 125 million years, as shown by the blue areas. ... s article, "Digital Isochrons of the World's Ocean Floor" (PDF), ...
http://geology.about.com/library/bl/maps/blseafloorage.htm
Black Smokers, Cold Seeps, Whale Falls
How do the communities in the mid-ocean stay so similar to those near shore, ... Their bodies must dot the ocean bottom everywhere, so they would be natural ...
http://geology.about.com/od/regional_geology/a/aa042698whales.htm
Lost City of Serpentinization
Because of serpentinization, oceanic plates take up a great deal of water: a ... When oceanic plates undergo subduction, the heat and pressure reverse the ...
http://geology.about.com/cs/escibasics/a/aa081003a.htm
Tsunamis: Killer Waves
Impacts that could unleash large tsunamis onto the whole shoreline of the Pacific Ocean occur, on average, once in 1000 years. Over geologic time, events of ...
http://geology.about.com/cs/basics_hazard/a/aa072698.htm
Asphalt Volcanism
Each new deep-sea oasis we find—joining black smokers, carbonate smokers, cold seeps and whale falls — makes the ocean floor a still more lively place. ...
http://geology.about.com/cs/volcanology/a/aa051604a.htm
Transforms in a Nutshell
These continental transforms are more complex than their short oceanic counterparts. The forces affecting them include a degree of compression or extension ...
http://geology.about.com/library/bl/blnutshell_transform.htm
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