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Bezig met laden... Mapping the Deep: The extraordinary story of ocean science (origineel 1999; editie 2000)door Robert Kunzig (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkMapping The Deep: The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science door Robert Kunzig (1999) Geen Bezig met laden...
Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A wonderful review of the history of the exploration of oceanic depths. I wish the author and editors had left climate change opinion exposition to Kunzig's other works, and for major distraction I am deducting a star. ( ) In reading this immensely stimulating and informative book, it is striking to realize how much our knowledge of the oceans has changed and grown in the past fifty years, and how it is continuing to do so. So much for the notion that there is nothing left for science to do! I would recommend Kunzig's well-written account of these recent developments to anyone with even a slight interest in the subject. The chapter on the collapse of the North Atlantic cod fisheries is enough to make anyone despair about the ability of human beings to look out for their own best interests. This is such an interesting book, spanning such disparate topics as sea floor geology, things living on the sea floor - the middle of the ocean - the sea ridges, water currents, and commercial fishing. The topics seem unrelated, except for the common theme of the sea, but there is such an abundance of interesting and kind of obscure facts that I just kept wondering what I would be learning next. For anyone who would like to know more about the last earth frontier, I would highly recommend this work. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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A vivid, up-to-date tour of the Earth's last frontier, a remote and mysterious realm that nonetheless lies close to the heart of even the most land-locked reader. The sea covers seven-tenths of the Earth, but we have mapped only a small percentage of it. The sea contains millions of species of animals and plants, but we have identified only a few thousand of them. The sea controls our planet's climate, but we do not really understand how. The sea is still the frontier, and yet it seems so familiar that we sometimes forget how little we know about it. Just as we are poised on the verge of exploiting the sea on an unprecedented scale-mining it, fertilizing it, fishing it out-this book reminds us of how much we have yet to learn. More than that, it chronicles the knowledge explosion that has transformed our view of the sea in just the past few decades, and made it a far more interesting and accessible place. From the Big Bang to that far-off future time, two billion years from now, when our planet will be a waterless rock; from the lush crowds of life at seafloor hot springs to the invisible, jewel-like plants that float at the sea surface; from the restless shifting of the tectonic plates to the majestic sweep of the ocean currents, Kunzig's clear and lyrical prose transports us to the ends of the Earth. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)551.46Natural sciences and mathematics Earth sciences & geology Geology, Hydrology Meteorology Surface features of the earth OceansLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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