TTemperature:
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
― 1076 ― 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
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