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Includes bibliographical references (p. 72-76).

Techniques and technology of exploration in the Gulf of the
Farallones /Kaye Kinoshita and John L. Chin --Regional setting /John
L. Chin and Russell W. Graymer --Earthquakes, faults, and tectonics
/Holly F. Ryan, Stephanie L. Ross, and Russell W. Graymer --Landscape
of the sea floor /Herman A. Carl and William C. Schwab --Current
patterns over the continental shelf and slope /Marlene A. Noble
--Sediment of the sea floor /Herman A. Karl --Chemical composition of
surface sediments on the sea floor /Walter E. Dean and James V.
Gardner --Heavy-mineral provinces on the continental shelf /Florence
L. Wong --Biology and ecological niches in the Gulf of the Farallones
--Phytoplankton /Gregg W. Langlois and Patricia Smith --Krill /Dan
Howard --Free-floating larvae of crabs, sea urchins, and rockfishes
/Stephen R. Wing --Salmon /Peter Adams --Seabirds /Peter Pyle
--Marine mammals /Jan Roletto --White sharks /Scot Anderson
--Continental slope communities /Tom Laidig --Disposal of dredged
material and other waste on the continental shelf and slope /John L.
Chin and Allan Ota --Search for containers of radioactive waste on
the sea floor /Herman A. Karl --Measuring radioactivity from waste
drums on the sea floor /David G. Jones, Philip D. Roberts, and
Johannes Limburg.

Also available via Internet from the USGS web site. Address as of
07/16/2003: http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/circular/c1198/c1198sho...;
current access is available via PURL.

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Dewey Class: 551.460809432 -- Geology, hydrology, meteorology

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Language: eng
Physical Description: 78 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 22 x 28 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.).

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