Welcome to Poorna Pal's Physical Oceanography class at the Glendale Community College
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Welcome to Poorna Pal's Physical Oceanography class at the Glendale Community College |
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To update your science info, try: Scientific American | BBC Science Online | Nature | Science |
Updated on May 05, 2015 |
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Ocean basins and how they are created |
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The materials that fill the ocean basins |
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The world ocean |
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Earth interior |
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The sea-floor and its evolution | u | Seawater chemistry | ||
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Plate tectonics | u | Physics of seawater | ||
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The Plate model and database at Institute for Geophysics - University of Texas at Austin allow users to make reconstructions from 750 Ma to present (www.ig.utexas.edu/research/projects/plates/plates.htm)
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Poorna's Power-Point Slides |
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Poorna's Handouts: |
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The World Ocean | ||
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Click on this map to browse the HRW ocean floor atlas |
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Click on this map for the interactive high resolution image of global ocean bathymetry at NOAA (National Ocean & Atmospheric Administration) Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry. |
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Clicking on this image will take you to the NGDC (National Geophysical Data Center) 2- minute latitude/ longitude grid (1 minute of latitude = 1 nautical mile, or 1.852 km) color relief images of the earth's surface. |
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