LLaboratories on board ship, 339, 340 Labrador Current, 665 meeting Gulf Stream, 682
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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
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