The New Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 2Encyclopædia Britannica, 1992 - 32 pages |
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... depth with water from the surface and slowly replaces surface water elsewhere with water rising from deeper depths ( see below Circulation of the ocean currents : Thermohaline circulation ) . Optical properties . Water is transparent to ...
... depth with water from the surface and slowly replaces surface water elsewhere with water rising from deeper depths ( see below Circulation of the ocean currents : Thermohaline circulation ) . Optical properties . Water is transparent to ...
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... depth Growth rate of sea ice Principal sources. Table 7 : Loss of Light ( Percent ) in One Metre of Seawater * violet red Wavelength ( micrometre ) Oceanic water , 0.70 42 % most transparent 57 % 16 % 11 % 10 % 13 % 63 % 37 % 29 % 28 ...
... depth Growth rate of sea ice Principal sources. Table 7 : Loss of Light ( Percent ) in One Metre of Seawater * violet red Wavelength ( micrometre ) Oceanic water , 0.70 42 % most transparent 57 % 16 % 11 % 10 % 13 % 63 % 37 % 29 % 28 ...
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Caribbean Current Guiana Current Atlantic South Equatorial Current Mentor Current depth ( in kilometres ) depth ( in kilometres ). ARCTIC OCEAN East Siberian Coastal Current Alaska Current Aleutian Current Subarctic Current -North ...
Caribbean Current Guiana Current Atlantic South Equatorial Current Mentor Current depth ( in kilometres ) depth ( in kilometres ). ARCTIC OCEAN East Siberian Coastal Current Alaska Current Aleutian Current Subarctic Current -North ...
Contents
NUMBER GAMES and Other Mathematical Recreations | 1 |
NUMBER THEORY | 14 |
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS | 38 |
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