USGS: Science Topics: oceans

Science Topics

Oceans

Continuous salt-water bodies that surround the continents and fill the Earth's great depressions. [Adapted from Glossary of Geology, 4th ed.]

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Subtopics:
Ocean currents (1 items)
Ocean regions (1 items)

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Global inventory of natural gas hydrate occurrence [New Window]: This updated global inventory reports on natural gas hydrate recovered or inferred from geophysical, geochemical, or geological evidence. Includes links to world location maps, inventories, references and posters. Also in PDF format files.
Global sea-surface temperature and sea-ice concentration: data display software [New Window]: Downloadable data with software showing composite average ocean characteristics (sea-surface temperature and sea-ice concentration). Includes documentation, source code, data, and executable programs for Linux and Microsoft Windows.
Pacific Basin Information Node (PBIN) [New Window]: Pacific Basin Information Node provides access to studies of biological resources associated with the Pacific Basin including tropical and subtropical islands and the surrounding marine environment.
Sound waves [New Window]: Monthly online newsletter covering coastal and marine science with links listed under sections titled fieldwork, meetings, outreach, and research.

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