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  1. Faeroe-Shetland Channel, flow through, 652655

  2. Falkland Current, 628, 630

  3. Faunal areas (see Zoogeography)

  4. Feeding mechanisms, 886898

  5. Filter feeders, 377, 886892

    1. rate of filtering, 901902, 930

  6. Fishes (see also under specific fishes):

    1. deep-sea fishes:

      1. adaptations, 828835, 897

      2. food of, 896897

    2. dispersal of eggs and larvae, 861, 865

    3. feeding habits, 884, 890, 892

    4. migrations, 811

    5. osmotic regulations, 271

    6. reproduction, 325

    7. synopsis, 312

    8. visual depths, 831833

    9. year classes, 326328

  7. Floating adaptations:

    1. in animals, 818, 821823

    2. in diatoms, 764765

    3. in dinoflagellates, 765766

  8. Flocculation of fine sediments, 958

  9. Florida Current, 672, 673675

    1. compared with Kuroshio, 720

  10. Fluorine, 180

  11. Fog, advection, 118

  12. Foraminifera:

    1. in deep-sea sediments, 983985

    2. reproduction, 319

    3. synopsis, 304305

  13. Foraminiferal number, 985

  14. Foraminiferal tests, composition of, 991

  15. Forel scale, 88

  16. Freezing point of sea water, 6567

  17. Friction:

    1. boundary, 478481

    2. general terms, 469, 470

    3. simplified terms, 475

  18. Frictional forces, 469

    1. in presence of turbulence, 474476

  19. Frictional stresses (see also Wind stress), 68, 69

    1. due to lateral turbulence, 474

      1. Antarctic Circumpolar Current, 621

      2. Equatorial Countercurrent, 634

      3. importance to dynamics of ocean currents, 489

    2. due to vertical turbulence, 471474

  20. Fucus, 286, 291

    1. reproduction, 293

    2. zone, 277


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