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Laboratories on board ship, 339, 340
Labrador Current, 665
meeting Gulf Stream, 682
Labrador Sea:
currents, 665, 666
water masses, 663–665
Laminar boundary layer, 479
Laminar flow, 89, 470
Laminarian zone, 277
Laminations in sediments:
deep sea, 1038, 1039
shallow water, 1039–1040
Larvae (see Zooplankton, temporary)
Lateral mixing (see Eddy viscosity and Turbulence)
Law of parallel solenoids, 455
Layer of no motion, determination of, 456, 457
Level, reference, for depths, 10
Level surfaces, 390, 402
Liebig's law of the minimum, 768, 792
Life cycles of animals (see also Reproduction), 283, 319–322
field studies of, 322–323, 845–848, 862–865
Life in the sea, development of, 281–284
Light:
related to animal ecology, 824–839, 851, 899
related plant production, 774–776, 781–782
Limacina, biological studies of, 384
Limnoria, 310
food of, 896
reproduction, 317
Lithium, 182
Littoral system, 276–277
animals of, 800–805
horizontal distribution, 803–805
plants of, 286–295, 302
subdivisions, 275, 276, 286
Local change, 157
Local sequence, 384
Luminescence (see Bioluminescence)
Lunar hours, 548