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1. Wake Stream, 676

2. Water mass, 143

   1. formation, 143–146

3. Water masses of the oceans (see also under geographic regions), 739–745

4. Water type, 143

5. Wave of translation, 537

6. Waves (see also Internal waves and Wind waves):

   1. caused by earthquakes, 543

      1. contributing to formation of sub-marine canyons, 42

   2. characteristics, 516–521

   3. destructive, 542

   4. effect of Corioli's force on, 520

   5. “tidal,” 542

7. Whales:

   1. biological factors in movements, 904–905

   2. diatoms on, 299, 881

   3. feeding habits, 892

   4. feeding mechanisms, 314, 891–892

   5. food of, 273, 904–907

   6. migrations, 811

   7. rate of growth, 906

   8. rate of metabolism, 935

   9. reproduction and growth, 326

   10. sounding of, 273

   11. systematic position of, 314

8. Winches, 333–335

9. Wind currents, 492

   1. Antarctic Ocean, 617

   2. general character, 395–397

   3. in shallow water, 496

   4. secondary effect of, 500

   5. transport by, 498

   6. velocity, 494

10. Wind drift of ice, 623, 666

11. Wind factor, 494

12. Wind stress, 489–491

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13. Wind waves:

    1. breakers, 536

       1. effect on beaches, 1017

    2. dissipation, 536

    3. energy, 533

    4. forms and characteristics, 523–527

    5. growth, 533

    6. height, 532, 535

    7. importance to beach sediments, 1017–1019

    8. interference, 529

    9. origin, 522

    10. particle velocity, 528

    11. short-crested, 531

14. Wire ropes, 335–338

15. Wood-boring organisms, 317, 841, 895–896

16. Wyville Thompson Ridge as a faunal barrier, 810, 849