The New Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 2Encyclopædia Britannica, 1992 - 32 pages |
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... Pacific Ocean O f the three oceans that extend northward from the Antarctic continent , the Pacific , occupying about a third of the surface of the terrestrial globe , is by far the largest . Its area ... Pacific Ocean The PACIFIC OCEAN.
... Pacific Ocean O f the three oceans that extend northward from the Antarctic continent , the Pacific , occupying about a third of the surface of the terrestrial globe , is by far the largest . Its area ... Pacific Ocean The PACIFIC OCEAN.
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... Pacific , along the coasts of North and Central America , where cold water appears at a shallower depth compared to the central and western Pacific . Ocean temperatures in the North Pacific tend to be higher than those in the South Pacific ...
... Pacific , along the coasts of North and Central America , where cold water appears at a shallower depth compared to the central and western Pacific . Ocean temperatures in the North Pacific tend to be higher than those in the South Pacific ...
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... Pacific has the most varied complement of plants ( i.e. , algae ) and animals of the world's oceans . The circumglobal mixing of water in the southern and , to a much more limited extent , northern po- lar reaches of the Pacific permit ...
... Pacific has the most varied complement of plants ( i.e. , algae ) and animals of the world's oceans . The circumglobal mixing of water in the southern and , to a much more limited extent , northern po- lar reaches of the Pacific permit ...
Contents
NUMBER GAMES and Other Mathematical Recreations | 1 |
NUMBER THEORY | 14 |
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS | 38 |
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