. The depths of the ocean : a general account of the modern science of oceanography based largely on the scientific researches of the Norwegian steamer Michael Sars in the North Atlantic. "Michael Sars" North Atlantic Deep-sea Expedition (1910); Oceanography; North Atlantic Ocean. Fig. 136.—Pteropod Ooze. Valdivia" Station 208, Indian Ocean, lat. 6° 54' N. long. 93° 28'.8 E., 162 fathonis (magnified). on usually far from continental land especially within coral reef regions where warm water with small annual range occupies the surface, almost every surface organism which secrete
. The depths of the ocean : a general account of the modern science of oceanography based largely on the scientific researches of the Norwegian steamer Michael Sars in the North Atlantic. "Michael Sars" North Atlantic Deep-sea Expedition (1910); Oceanography; North Atlantic Ocean. Fig. 136.—Pteropod Ooze. Valdivia" Station 208, Indian Ocean, lat. 6° 54' N. long. 93° 28'.8 E., 162 fathonis (magnified). on usually far from continental land especially within coral reef regions where warm water with small annual range occupies the surface, almost every surface organism which secretes a hard shell or skeleton is represented in the de- posit, the dead shells of pteropods and hetero- pods being character- istic, and the deposit is hence called Pteropod ooze (see Fig. 136). About 35 species of pteropods and 32 species of heteropods, as well as pelagic gas- teropods (see pp. 172- 173), are known to live in the surface waters of the tropics, and. Fig. 137. Ooze. Valdivia" Station 45, Atlantic, lat. 2° 56'.4 N., long. 11° 40'. 5 W., 2728 fathoms (magnified).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Murray, John, Sir, 1841-1914; Hjort, Johan, 1869-; Appellöf, Jakob Johan Adolf, 1857-; Gran, H. H. (Haakon Hasberg), 1870?-; Helland-Hansen, Bjørn, 1877-. London : Macmillan
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