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The sediments are a sort of epic poem of the earth.
The Sea Around Us (1951)
In our own lifetime we are witnessing a startling alteration of climate.
The Sea Around Us (1951)
Day by day and season by season, the ocean dominates the world's climate.
The Sea Around Us (1951)
Activities in the nonhuman world also reflect the warming of the Arctic-the changed habits and migrations of many fishes, birds, land mammals, and whales.
The Sea Around Us (1951)
Fishes and plankton, whales and squids, birds and sea turtles, all are linked by unbreakable ties to certain kinds of water—to warm water or cold water, to clear or turbid water, to water rich in phosphates or in silicates.
The Sea Around Us (1951)
It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.
The Sea Around Us (1951)
The sharpest peaks of the Ridge are the cluster of islets known as the Rocks of St. Paul, near the equator. The entire cluster of half a dozen islets is not more than a quarter of a mile across, and their rocky slopes drop off at so sheer an angle that water more than half a mile deep lies only a few feet off shore.
The Sea Around Us (1951)