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Temperature:
adiabatic changes, 63–65
annual variation:
at surface, 129, 130
in surface layers, 131–133
theory, 135–137
as an ecological factor, 770, 792–795, 843–858
average surface values, 127
difference, sea-surface minus air, 128, 129
diurnal variation:
at surface, 133, 134
in surface layer, 135
measurements, 347–352
potential, 64
at depths exceeding 4000 m, 747, 749
basin water, 149
bottom water, 749
Caribbean Sea, 640, 641
China Sea and Sulu Sea, 735
Gulf of Mexico, 641
Mediterranean Sea, 644
Mindanao Trench, 739
range, in oceans, 55
Temperature-salinity diagram, 142
illustrating water masses of:
all oceans, 741
equatorial region, Atlantic, 631
equatorial region, Pacific, 707
Indian Ocean, 692
North Atlantic, 669
North Pacific, 713
South Atlantic, 626
South Pacific, 699, 700
Subantarctic region, 612
used for checking data, 358
Teredo:
depredations by, 841
diet, 896
Terrigenous materials in sedments, 948, 949
Terrigenous mud, radium content of, 1034
Terrigenous sediments, 972–974
average percentage of calcium carbonate, 1006
classification, 973, 974
distribution, 972, 975, 976
rate of deposition, 1039, 1040
Texture of sediment:
beach, 1019–1022
bearing on content of organic matter, 1016
continental shelf, 1020–1022
deep sea. 979–982
Texture of sediments, 969–971
Thermal conductivity (see also Eddy conductivity), 60, 61
Thermal expansion, 60
Thermometers, 347–352
protected reversing, 349, 350
unprotected reversing, 350, 351
Thorium, 184
Tidal currents:
Atlantic Ocean, 584, 585
effect of friction, 577–580
influence of bottom topography, 567, 568
in sounds, 568, 569
rotary, 570
due to earth's rotation, 571–573
due to interference, 570
theory, 564
Tidal energy, 569
Tide-producing forces, 545–550
“Tide rips,” 716
Tides:
analysis and prediction, 564
Atlantic Ocean, 581
character, 558
cooscillating, 553
effect of Corioli's force, 555
effect of friction, 574
importance to shallow-water sediments, 1017
independent, 554
meteorological, 559
observations, 359–361
partial, 549, 558
theories, 550–552
Tintinnoinea, systematic position of, 305
Trajectories, 426
Transparency, 85
Transport, volume of, 462–465
Antarctic Circumpolar Current, 615–617
by wind currents, 498
North Atlantic, 683–685
North Pacific, 727, 728
South Atlantic, 628, 629
Transport across the equator:
Atlantic, 637, 685
Pacific, 752
Transportation of particles along bottom, 959–966
effect on shape, size, and composition, 966–967
Transportation of particles by currents, 959
Transportation of sediments to the sea, 953–956
by ice, 953
by organisms, 954
by winds, 954–955
importance to character of Sediments, 1043
Transport of heat by ocean currents, 99
Trawls: beam, otter, and ring, 375, 376
Tripping mechanism, 380
Tropical convergences, 140
Tropical submergence, 849
Troposphere, oceanic, 141
Tsunamis (see also Earthquake waves), 543
contributing to formation of submarine canyons, 42
importance to transportation of sediments, 965
Tunicates, bathymetric distribution of, 807
Turbulence (see also Eddy viscosity and Eddy diffusion), 90–93, 471
horizontal, 477, 478
importance to transportation of sediments, 960, 962–965
influence of stability on, 92, 476, 477
transport of momentum, 472, 473